Sherren Family Tree » Hardin John "Johnny" (Hardin John "Johnny") Haggard (1890-1953)

Day of marriage September 10, 1914

• The temperature on September 10, 1914 was between 12.7 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • March 7 » Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
  • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
  • November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

Day of death March 24, 1953

• The temperature on March 24, 1953 was between -1.3 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
  • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
  • May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
  • August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
  • August 19 » Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Mary of Teck (b. 1867)