Olson's Tree » Henry Gassaway Davis III (1902-1984)

Day of marriage June 28, 1927

• The temperature on June 28, 1927 was between 6.4 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Day of death May 22, 1984

• The temperature on May 22, 1984 was between 6.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
  • January 24 » Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
  • February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • August 11 » "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
  • September 21 » Brunei joins the United Nations.
  • November 14 » Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 » Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
• 1990 » Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)