Riches to Rags Family Tree » James F. West (1925-2006)

Day of marriage November 20, 1946

• The temperature on November 20, 1946 was between 5.7 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • May 8 » Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
  • May 21 » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
  • September 20 » The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
  • October 22 » Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post–World War II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
  • December 9 » The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

Day of death December 28, 2006

• The temperature on December 28, 2006 was between 1.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
  • March 25 » Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
  • April 11 » Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
  • May 23 » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
  • June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
  • October 28 » A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian politician, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
• 2008 » Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Jimmy Sullivan, American musician, composer and songwriter. Known by his stage name The Rev (b. 1981)