Lax Family Tree » Renate Helga Vera Kochmann (1912-1997)

Day of marriage September 4, 1937

• The temperature on September 4, 1937 was between 11.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 19 » Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
  • 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.
  • March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
  • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

Day of death October 17, 1997

• The temperature on October 17, 1997 was between 9.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
  • September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
  • October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
  • November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
  • December 15 » Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
  • December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
• 1997 » Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)