Olson's Tree » Edith Callender Cutler (1882-1954)

Day of marriage May 31, 1904

• The temperature on May 31, 1904 was between 11.1 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Day of death January 10, 1954

• The temperature on January 10, 1954 was between 0.5 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 21 » The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USSNautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
  • February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
  • February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
  • November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
  • December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (b. 1867)