Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Mary Alvina Weissmueller (1922-2005)

Day of marriage July 31, 1947

• The temperature on July 31, 1947 was between 13.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 21 » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
  • July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
  • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
  • November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

Day of death April 6, 2005

• The temperature on April 6, 2005 was between 4.7 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
  • April 6 » Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
  • April 24 » Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
  • July 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • August 14 » Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
  • August 17 » The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Francis L. Kellogg, American soldier and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Maggie Dixon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1977)
• 2006 » Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor and director (b. 1926)