Downs Tree » Aubrey Lee Sandifer (1945-2015)

Day of marriage July 28, 1967

• The temperature on July 28, 1967 was between 12.6 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • April 27 » Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
  • June 12 » The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
  • October 9 » A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
  • November 7 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  • November 17 » Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
  • December 19 » Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.

Day of death January 22, 2015

• The temperature on January 22, 2015 was between -2.9 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
  • January 9 » The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
  • May 19 » The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
  • June 30 » A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
  • October 1 » Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
  • November 12 » Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

Day of burial January 24, 2015

• The temperature on January 24, 2015 was between -1.7 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • February 11 » A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
  • February 24 » A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
  • March 27 » Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
  • June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
  • July 23 » NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
  • October 31 » Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

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