Olson's Tree » Raymond Richard Guest (1907-1991)

Day of marriage June 25, 1935

• The temperature on June 25, 1935 was between 17.6 °C and 31.0 °C and averaged 24.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
  • June 10 » Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
  • June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
  • July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
  • August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.

Day of death December 31, 1991

• The temperature on December 31, 1991 was between 3.9 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
  • August 20 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • August 27 » The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
  • December 4 » Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
  • December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

Source: Wikipedia

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