Harpham Family Tree » Suzanne Taylor (1925-1988)

Day of marriage March 24, 1945

• The temperature on March 24, 1945 was between 8.7 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 4 » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
  • March 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
  • May 1 » World War II: Forces of the Soviet Red Army liberate Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Stalag Luft I near Barth, Germany.
  • November 21 » The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
  • December 24 » Five of nine children become missing after their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is burned down.
  • December 27 » The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.

Day of death June 12, 1988

• The temperature on June 12, 1988 was between 9.6 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
  • March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
  • September 13 » Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
  • September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
  • September 29 » NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
  • December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
• 1982 » Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1983 » Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi and author (b. 1902)