The Brown Tree » Charlotte DARLING (1903-1976)

Day of marriage November 14, 1933

• The temperature on November 14, 1933 was between 0.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • April 24 » Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
  • May 10 » Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
  • June 16 » The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
  • September 3 » Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
  • September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
  • December 6 » U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

Day of death September 28, 1976

• The temperature on September 28, 1976 was between 12.0 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
  • May 24 » The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
  • June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
  • September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
  • October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 1970 » John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 » John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)