Olson's Tree » Mark Raymond Bonham Carter (1922-1994)

Day of marriage June 30, 1955

• The temperature on June 30, 1955 was between 12.4 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
  • June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
  • August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
  • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
  • November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

Day of death September 4, 1994

• The temperature on September 4, 1994 was between 9.9 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
  • February 22 » Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
  • September 3 » Sino-Soviet split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
  • October 29 » Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
  • November 30 » MSAchille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Tom Tryon, American actor and author (b. 1926)
• 1993 » Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (b. 1943)
• 1995 » Chuck Greenberg, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (b. 1950)
• 1995 » William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (b. 1917)