Kennedy Family Tree » Alice Lena Goodwin (1913-2002)

Day of marriage June 13, 1936

• The temperature on June 13, 1936 was between 11.3 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • January 29 » The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
  • July 6 » A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61m) into the River Irwell.
  • July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
  • December 11 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
  • December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Day of death August 7, 2002

• The temperature on August 7, 2002 was between 14.0 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 24.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 23 » U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
  • January 27 » An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
  • May 20 » The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
  • October 16 » The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
  • October 29 » Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
  • October 31 » A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2003 » K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
• 2004 » Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)