More like a forest than a tree! » Ella PETTINGILL (1912-1992)

Day of marriage September 12, 1935

• The temperature on September 12, 1935 was between 5.3 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
  • March 16 » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
  • June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
  • July 5 » The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
  • November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.

Day of death December 30, 1992

• The temperature on December 30, 1992 was between -8.1 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
  • March 31 » The USSMissouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
  • September 25 » NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
  • November 21 » A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
  • December 3 » A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
  • December 31 » Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929)
• 1992 » Romeo Muller, American actor, screenwriter, for screenplays like the 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) (b. 1928)
• 1993 » İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish lawyer and politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)