Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » Gail Bordon Brewer (1908-2000)

Day of marriage November 8, 1975

• The temperature on November 8, 1975 was between 5.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
  • May 30 » European Space Agency is established.
  • August 27 » The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
  • September 16 » Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
  • December 26 » Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach2, went into service.
  • December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

Day of death May 12, 2000

• The temperature on May 12, 2000 was between 11.3 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
  • May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
  • November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • November 13 » Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
  • December 30 » Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Ștefan Kovács, Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2001 » Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933)