More like a forest than a tree! » Barrie Clement BROOKS (1938-1984)

Day of marriage October 20, 1972

• The temperature on October 20, 1972 was between 1.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
  • January 13 » Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • April 6 » Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
  • September 4 » Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
  • December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

Day of death September 30, 1984

• The temperature on September 30, 1984 was between 10.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
  • June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
  • July 18 » McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
  • September 2 » Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
  • December 23 » After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.

Day of burial October 2, 1984

• The temperature on October 2, 1984 was between 7.0 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
  • February 3 » John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
  • February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • March 16 » William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
  • November 1 » After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
  • December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896)