Sickler Family Tree » Mary Meredith Davis (1919-2009)

Day of marriage February 23, 1985

• The temperature on February 23, 1985 was between -0.9 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
  • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
  • August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
  • November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.

Day of death April 4, 2009

• The temperature on April 4, 2009 was between 6.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
  • February 12 » Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
  • April 30 » Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
  • June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
  • December 3 » A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
  • December 17 » MVDanny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » Bob Clark, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2007 » Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
• 2008 » Francis Tucker, South African race car driver (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Maxine Cooper, American actress, activist and photographer (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (b. 1958)
• 2011 » Scott Columbus, American drummer (b. 1956)