Harpham Family Tree » Robert Snow Wilson (1927-2015)

Day of marriage June 14, 1952

• The temperature on June 14, 1952 was between 13.7 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
  • February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
  • February 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
  • July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
  • September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
  • October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

Day of death December 21, 2015

• The temperature on December 21, 2015 was between 8.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • 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.
  • February 24 » A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
  • August 26 » Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
  • October 3 » Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
  • November 5 » Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
  • November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
• 2013 » John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
• 2014 » Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
• 2017 » Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)