Lax Family Tree » Gary Gerhardt Leon (1911-2002)

Day of marriage April 2, 1938

• The temperature on April 2, 1938 was between 6.3 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
  • May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).

Day of death July 28, 2002

• The temperature on July 28, 2002 was between 15.7 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 23.0 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 29 » In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
  • March 30 » 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
  • April 12 » A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
  • July 15 » Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
  • October 11 » A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.
  • October 16 » The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)