McCaughey Kelly Family Tree » Edward Patrick Roden Sr (1891-1972)

Day of marriage September 2, 1917

• The temperature on September 2, 1917 was between 10.9 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
  • August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
  • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Day of death June 27, 1972

• The temperature on June 27, 1972 was between 14.6 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • March 30 » Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
  • June 18 » Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London's Heathrow Airport.
  • September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
  • December 18 » Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
  • December 29 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.
  • December 30 » Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (b. 1871)
• 1962 » Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (b. 1904)
• 1967 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1975 » G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1886)
• 1986 » George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (b. 1905)