Olson's Tree » Catherine Howland Hunt (1868-1963)

Day of marriage July 7, 1892

• The temperature on July 7, 1892 was about 17.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
  • July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
  • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
  • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
  • December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Day of death June 28, 1963

• The temperature on June 28, 1963 was between 10.4 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  • February 5 » The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
  • May 15 » Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
  • June 17 » A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
  • November 29 » "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.
  • December 7 » Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
• 1965 » Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)