Gibson Lineage » Opal Marie Lewis (1917-1995)

Day of marriage January 12, 1936

• The temperature on January 12, 1936 was between -0.7 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
  • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
  • June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
  • November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
  • November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

Day of death December 13, 1995

• The temperature on December 13, 1995 was between -2.5 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
  • July 5 » Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
  • July 18 » On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
  • November 21 » The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • December 3 » Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.
  • December 19 » The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1992 » K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899)
• 1993 » Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
• 1995 » Ann Nolan Clark, American author and educator (b. 1896)
• 1996 » Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)