Downs Tree » William Sherrod Earles (1933-2009)

Day of marriage April 23, 1951

• The temperature on April 23, 1951 was between 1.4 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (79%). 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
  • February 7 » Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
  • March 6 » Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
  • April 25 » Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
  • May 16 » The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
  • November 1 » Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.

Day of death January 1, 2009

• The temperature on January 1, 2009 was between -2.8 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • June 1 » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
  • June 19 » Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
  • August 19 » A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
  • October 9 » First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
  • October 28 » NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
  • December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Harry Magdoff, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
• 2007 » Roland Levinsky, South African-English biochemist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2007 » Tillie Olsen, American short story writer (b. 1912)
• 2008 » Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian educator and politician (b. 1919)
• 2009 » Claiborne Pell, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Lhasa de Sela, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1972)