Sickler Family Tree » William Arthello Schell (1936-2001)

Day of marriage October 25, 1969

• The temperature on October 25, 1969 was between 8.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
  • April 5 » Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
  • June 23 » Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
  • July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
  • August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
  • December 6 » Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.

Day of death May 6, 2001

• The temperature on May 6, 2001 was between 6.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 15 » The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
  • April 7 » Mars Odyssey is launched.
  • June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
  • September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
  • November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
  • December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Bjørn Johansen, Norwegian saxophonist (b. 1940)
• 2002 » Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1906)
• 2002 » Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1932)
• 2002 » Pim Fortuyn, Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician (b. 1948)
• 2003 » Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1927)