Gall/Genseal Family Tree » Leroy James Eldred (1907-1990)

Day of marriage October 15, 1949

• The temperature on October 15, 1949 was between 11.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
  • February 14 » The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
  • May 6 » EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
  • June 14 » Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134km (83mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
  • October 25 » The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
  • November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.

Day of death October 24, 1990

• The temperature on October 24, 1990 was between 0.7 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  • February 11 » Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
  • March 29 » The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
  • August 13 » A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwan's naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
  • September 18 » Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
  • November 13 » In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 » Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1944)
• 1993 » Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
• 1994 » Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (b. 1930)