Dreyer Tree » Muriel Mildred Lobb (1916-1987)

Day of marriage March 9, 1942

• The temperature on March 9, 1942 was between -1.6 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
  • May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
  • June 7 » World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
  • September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
  • November 15 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

Day of death October 12, 1987

• The temperature on October 12, 1987 was between 4.8 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
  • May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
  • July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
  • August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
  • October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
  • November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1987 » Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
• 1987 » Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)