Descendants of June Carol Yost » George Michael Brissette (1932-1993)

Day of marriage October 23, 1954

• The temperature on October 23, 1954 was between 7.3 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
  • March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
  • March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
  • April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
  • June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  • October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.

Day of death June 2, 1993

• The temperature on June 2, 1993 was between 12.9 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
  • May 10 » In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
  • September 9 » Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
  • September 14 » Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.
  • November 23 » Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
  • December 2 » Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Jack Gilford, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (b. 1927)
• 1992 » Philip Dunne, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Tahar Djaout, Algerian journalist, writer and poet (b. 1954)
• 1994 » David Stove, Australian philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1927)