Sickler Family Tree » Wayne Charles Kinney (1920-2001)

Day of marriage September 18, 1942

• The temperature on September 18, 1942 was between 10.8 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
  • March 1 » World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
  • May 27 » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
  • May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
  • June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • August 7 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

Day of death August 17, 2001

• The temperature on August 17, 2001 was between 10.9 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
  • January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
  • July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
  • July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
  • October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
  • November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940)
• 2000 » Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Thea Astley, Australian author and educator (b. 1925)
• 2005 » John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934)
• 2006 » Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)