Kennedy Family Tree » Jessie Miller Anderson (1912-1998)

Day of marriage April 19, 1949

• The temperature on April 19, 1949 was between 6.8 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 31 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
  • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
  • April 4 » Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • May 20 » In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  • July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
  • December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

Day of death January 25, 1998

• The temperature on January 25, 1998 was between -1.9 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
  • June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
  • October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
  • October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
  • December 11 » Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
  • December 26 » Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Jonathan Larson, American playwright and composer (b. 1960)
• 1997 » Dan Barry, American author and illustrator (b. 1923)
• 1999 » Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Sarah Louise Delany, American author and educator (b. 1889)
• 2001 » Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (b. 1906)