Kennedy Family Tree » Preston Elsworth Hodges (1914-1989)

Day of marriage April 21, 1937

• The temperature on April 21, 1937 was between 3.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
  • July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
  • July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
  • November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

Day of death May 30, 1989

• The temperature on May 30, 1989 was between 6.4 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • May 2 » Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
  • August 7 » U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
  • November 16 » El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
  • November 28 » Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
  • December 17 » The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
  • December 22 » Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

Source: Wikipedia

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