More like a forest than a tree! » Dulcie Grace COX (1919-1970)

Day of marriage May 11, 1943

• The temperature on May 11, 1943 was between 8.3 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 10 » World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
  • February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
  • March 3 » World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
  • September 5 » World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
  • October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
  • December 4 » World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

Day of death September 18, 1970

• The temperature on September 18, 1970 was between 8.2 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
  • April 13 » An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
  • April 22 » The first Earth Day is celebrated.
  • May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
  • November 4 » Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
  • November 17 » Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)
• 1967 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1974 » Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
• 1975 » Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (b. 1907)