Meyer Genealogy Tree » Harvey Grayson Hobbs (1931-1996)

Day of marriage August 25, 1952

• The temperature on August 25, 1952 was between 11.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
  • April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
  • June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
  • August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
  • September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
  • November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.

Day of death October 28, 1996

• The temperature on October 28, 1996 was between 11.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • March 13 » The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
  • April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
  • May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
  • July 25 » In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
  • November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
  • December 29 » Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 » Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 » Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)