Olson's Tree » Junius Spencer Morgan (1892-1960)

Day of marriage June 15, 1915

• The temperature on June 15, 1915 was between 5.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • 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.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

Day of death October 19, 1960

• The temperature on October 19, 1960 was between 5.9 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
  • April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • August 6 » Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  • September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
  • December 9 » The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)
• 1960 » George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1964 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)