Downs Tree » Whittice Sherrod Earles (1908-1965)

Day of marriage March 25, 1933

• The temperature on March 25, 1933 was between -1.1 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
  • May 6 » The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
  • May 10 » Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
  • June 17 » Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
  • August 25 » The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
  • December 5 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

Day of death November 7, 1965

• The temperature on November 7, 1965 was between 3.5 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • March 25 » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • June 7 » The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
  • August 15 » The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
  • October 17 » The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
  • October 21 » Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
  • December 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1966 » Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 » John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, cryptographer, and academic (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1901)