Davis Family Tree » Bernard F Gregory (1898-1959)

Day of marriage April 16, 1921

• The temperature on April 16, 1921 was between -3.8 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
  • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
  • September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.

Day of death November 4, 1959

• The temperature on November 4, 1959 was between 4.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1959: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
  • February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
  • July 24 » At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
  • August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
  • September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
  • November 19 » The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Stig Dagerman, Swedish journalist and writer (b. 1923)
• 1955 » Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (b. 1867)
• 1955 » Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1956 » Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1897)
• 1959 » Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1896)