Sherren Family Tree » Pearl Lawraine Bosshardt (1921-2012)

Day of marriage March 7, 1947

• The temperature on March 7, 1947 was between -8.5 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  • April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
  • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
  • November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
  • December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Day of death March 10, 2012

• The temperature on March 10, 2012 was between 7.6 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• 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 2012: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
  • March 20 » At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
  • May 19 » Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
  • July 30 » A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300million people without power in northern India.
  • September 6 » Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
  • October 9 » Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2010 » Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
• 2010 » Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)
• 2011 » Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 2015 » Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1952)