Kelson Burbank Genealogy » Leo William Bell Jr. (1924-2007)

Day of marriage February 16, 1946

• The temperature on February 16, 1946 was between 4.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
  • March 11 » Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
  • May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
  • July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
  • August 8 » First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.
  • October 13 » France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

Day of death May 20, 2007

• The temperature on May 20, 2007 was between 5.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 3 » Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
  • April 12 » A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
  • May 5 » Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
  • July 12 » U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
  • August 3 » Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
  • December 23 » An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
• 2008 » Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
• 2009 » Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Lucy Gordon, American actress and model (b. 1980)