Jess Boatman Family Tree » Nancy Alice Boatman (1901-1991)

Day of marriage August 2, 1937

• The temperature on August 2, 1937 was between 14.7 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
  • July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.

Day of death August 18, 1991

• The temperature on August 18, 1991 was between 11.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • May 28 » The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
  • July 31 » The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
  • October 17 » 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
  • November 7 » Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.
  • December 6 » Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city for seven months.
  • December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)
• 2001 » David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)