Merricks Tree » Jacobus Bernardus Elberssen (1908-1993)

Day of marriage December 24, 1936

• The temperature on December 24, 1936 was between -0.5 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
  • February 26 » In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
  • March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
  • April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
  • July 20 » The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Day of death March 25, 1993

• The temperature on March 25, 1993 was between 1.5 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide in mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft.
  • April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
  • April 22 » Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
  • July 25 » The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
  • December 2 » Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Marcel Lefebvre, French-Swiss archbishop (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and director (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Angelines Fernández, Spanish-Mexican actress (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Bernard Kangro, Estonian poet and journalist (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician (b. 1899)
• 1995 » James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist and academic (b. 1926)