Tietze Family Tree » Mabel Virginia Morrill (1907-2003)

Day of marriage February 25, 1961

• The temperature on February 25, 1961 was between 5.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
  • August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
  • September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  • September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
  • October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
  • October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.

Day of death August 25, 2003

• The temperature on August 25, 2003 was between 14.1 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
  • March 24 » The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
  • April 9 » Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
  • August 10 » The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
  • August 19 » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
  • November 18 » The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2001 » Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
• 2001 » Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 2001 » Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver and businessman, founded Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Dorothy Hewett, Australian author and poet (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Tom Feelings, American author and illustrator (b. 1933)