Lalock Family tree » Bette Jane LITTLE (1927-1994)

Day of marriage June 21, 1942

• The temperature on June 21, 1942 was between 7.8 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • March 1 » World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
  • June 21 » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
  • September 27 » Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
  • October 1 » World War II: USSGrouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.
  • October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
  • November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.

Day of death June 25, 1994

• The temperature on June 25, 1994 was between 14.4 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
  • April 7 » Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
  • April 15 » Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
  • June 14 » The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
  • June 17 » Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
  • September 28 » The cruise ferry MSEstonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (b. 1940)
• 1992 » Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
• 1995 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Warren E. Burger, Fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1914)
• 1997 » Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)