Holicky Family Tree » Emil John Kesterson (1918-1967)

Day of marriage September 18, 1955

• The temperature on September 18, 1955 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
  • July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
  • July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
  • October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
  • December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
  • December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

Day of death September 3, 1967

• The temperature on September 3, 1967 was between 12.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
  • January 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
  • June 26 » Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
  • August 8 » The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
  • October 27 » Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
  • November 7 » Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1967 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (b. 1893)
• 1969 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (b. 1871)
• 1970 » Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach (b. 1913)