Kennedy Family Tree » Martina Carmalita Gallagher (1902-1980)

Day of marriage January 8, 1937

• The temperature on January 8, 1937 was between -0.8 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
  • April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
  • September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

Day of death April 5, 1980

• The temperature on April 5, 1980 was between 0.4 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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)
• 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
  • February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
  • March 21 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
  • August 1 » Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
  • August 26 » After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
  • September 26 » At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1981 » Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1910)