Lax Family Tree » James Duncan Bourne (1911-1997)

Day of marriage October 8, 1935

• The temperature on October 8, 1935 was between 4.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
  • February 2 » Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
  • May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
  • October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death August 19, 1997

• The temperature on August 19, 1997 was between 11.8 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • May 15 » The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
  • May 27 » The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
  • September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
  • September 26 » A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
  • October 27 » The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)