Olson's Tree » Charles /Moran Jr (1906-1978)

Day of marriage February 11, 1936

• The temperature on February 11, 1936 was between -9.0 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 29 » February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
  • June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.

Day of death June 27, 1978

• The temperature on June 27, 1978 was between 8.5 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
  • May 1 » Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
  • June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
  • September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
  • November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
  • November 27 » In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1975 » G.I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1886)
• 1986 » George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926)
• 1989 » A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and academic (b. 1910)