Sickler Family Tree » Dorothy Alice Davis (1927-2017)

Day of marriage May 17, 1946

• The temperature on May 17, 1946 was between 2.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The UN Security Council holds its first session.
  • February 1 » Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
  • May 8 » Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
  • August 1 » Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
  • December 9 » The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
  • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

Day of death January 20, 2017

• The temperature on January 20, 2017 was between -5.2 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2017: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.1 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America, becoming the oldest person to assume the office.
  • April 9 » The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
  • May 31 » A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
  • June 3 » London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.
  • August 25 » Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125billion in damage.
  • October 1 » An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2015 » Edgar Froese, Russian-German keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1944)
• 2016 » Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2016 » Mykolas Burokevičius, Lithuanian carpenter and politician (b. 1927)
• 2018 » Naomi Parker Fraley, American naval machiner (b. 1921)
• 2018 » Paul Bocuse, French chef (b. 1926)