Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Charles W Mecca (1920-1995)

Day of marriage April 29, 1946

• The temperature on April 29, 1946 was between 6.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 10 » The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
  • February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
  • February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
  • March 9 » Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
  • May 4 » In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
  • July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

Day of death December 14, 1995

• The temperature on December 14, 1995 was between -2.5 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Yahoo! is incorporated.
  • March 14 » Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
  • April 19 » Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
  • July 11 » Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.
  • August 10 » Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
  • November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
• 1993 » Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1994 » Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
• 1995 » G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)