Olson's Tree » Mary Endicott “Marietta” Peabody (1917-1991)

Day of marriage September 2, 1939

• The temperature on September 2, 1939 was between 13.0 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 20.4 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (69%). 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
  • April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
  • June 17 » Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
  • November 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
  • December 18 » World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
  • December 27 » Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.

Day of death August 15, 1991

• The temperature on August 15, 1991 was between 10.8 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • April 10 » A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
  • April 29 » The 7.0 M_w  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
  • July 7 » Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • July 10 » The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
  • August 19 » Crown Heights riot begins.
  • October 26 » Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician and actor (b. 1962)
• 1992 » Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (b. 1947)
• 1994 » Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (b. 1929)
• 1995 » John Cameron Swayze, American journalist and actor (b. 1906)