Family tree Hoegee » William Lester Hill (1915-1973)

Day of marriage June 15, 1938

• The temperature on June 15, 1938 was between 8.2 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
  • October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Day of death April 2, 1973

• The temperature on April 2, 1973 was between 3.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 21.5 mm of rain during 15.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• 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 Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 22 » In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
  • May 3 » The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
  • July 13 » Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
  • July 21 » In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
  • August 22 » The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1974 » Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Walter Wolf, German academic and politician (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Buddy Rich, American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1917)