McCaughey Kelly Family Tree » Andrew Noble Wilson (1918-1999)

Day of marriage October 22, 1955

• The temperature on October 22, 1955 was between 6.0 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
  • April 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
  • April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
  • May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
  • June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.

Day of death February 5, 1999

• The temperature on February 5, 1999 was between 2.0 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • September 7 » The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
  • September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
  • November 2 » Xerox murders: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
  • November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
  • December 5 » Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first to be elected to the role.
  • December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
• 1997 » Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
• 1997 » René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Tim Kelly, American guitarist (b. 1963)
• 1999 » Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)