RanHam Tree » Chester R Hammock (± 1899-1962)

Day of death August 9, 1962

• The temperature on August 9, 1962 was between 6.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
  • January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
  • May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
  • August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
  • August 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)