Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » Jay Wiggins Thayer (1917-2007)

Day of marriage April 10, 1943

• The temperature on April 10, 1943 was between 6.8 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
  • April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
  • June 24 » US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
  • July 10 » World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
  • July 12 » German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest armored engagements of all time.
  • September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.

Day of death February 5, 2007

• The temperature on February 5, 2007 was between -1.9 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • April 16 » Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
  • June 13 » The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
  • June 30 » A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.
  • July 25 » Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
  • September 6 » Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
  • October 22 » A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2005 » Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)
• 2005 » Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Norma Candal, Puerto Rican-American actress (b. 1927)
• 2007 » Alfred Worm, Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945)
• 2007 » Leo T. McCarthy, New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)