King-Wright Family Tree » Mildred Jane Turner (1905-1976)

Day of marriage August 12, 1929

• The temperature on August 12, 1929 was between 9.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Day of death May 4, 1976

• The temperature on May 4, 1976 was between 3.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • February 6 » In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
  • March 4 » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
  • April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
  • July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
  • July 29 » In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
  • August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1975 » Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1981 » C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913)