Sickler Family Tree » Nellie Maude Curtis (1893-1972)

Day of marriage October 4, 1943

• The temperature on October 4, 1943 was between 6.2 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
  • May 30 » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
  • October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
  • December 2 » World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SSJohn Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
  • December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

Day of death March 21, 1972

• The temperature on March 21, 1972 was between -0.1 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  • January 24 » Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
  • June 16 » The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
  • July 8 » Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.
  • October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
  • October 29 » The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Cyril M. Kornbluth, American soldier and author (b. 1923)
• 1970 » Manolis Chiotis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1920)
• 1975 » Joe Medwick, American baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, President of Ireland (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1888)
• 1985 » Michael Redgrave, English actor, director, and manager (b. 1908)