Schaeffer-Massung Family Tree » Regina Edwina BOWMAN (1945-2015)

Day of marriage September 2, 1978

• The temperature on September 2, 1978 was between 9.5 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
  • February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
  • March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
  • March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
  • October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
  • December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.

Day of death January 21, 2015

• The temperature on January 21, 2015 was between -1.9 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
  • February 4 » TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing 43 people.
  • June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
  • June 5 » An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
  • November 5 » Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
  • November 12 » Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and academic (b. 1941)
• 2015 » Johnnie Lewis, Liberian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Justice of Liberia (b. 1946)
• 2015 » Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1939)
• 2015 » Marcus Borg, American scholar, theologian, and author (b. 1942)
• 2016 » Bill Johnson, American skier (b. 1960)
• 2016 » Mrinalini Sarabhai, a 1992-Padma Bhushan award winner Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. (b. 1918)