Riches to Rags Family Tree » Harry Perry Mellencamp (1903-1983)

Day of marriage April 26, 1924

• The temperature on April 26, 1924 was between 9.0 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Day of death December 26, 1983

• The temperature on December 26, 1983 was between 2.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
  • May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
  • June 5 » More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
  • September 26 » Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
  • October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
  • November 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Savitri, Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer (b. 1936)
• 1981 » Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)