Olson's Tree » Dora Judd Mattoon (1883-1979)

Day of marriage September 11, 1915

• The temperature on September 11, 1915 was between 6.1 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death March 31, 1979

• The temperature on March 31, 1979 was between 3.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
  • March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
  • July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
  • September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
  • November 12 » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
  • December 3 » Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Astrid Allwyn, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913)
• 1980 » Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Enid Bagnold, English author and playwright (b. 1889)