Anderson Family Lives 2017 » Edward John Stahl (1896-1986)

Day of marriage May 25, 1924

• The temperature on May 25, 1924 was between 8.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
  • April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
  • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.

Day of death October 20, 1986

• The temperature on October 20, 1986 was between 6.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 19.1 mm of rain during 11.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
  • August 21 » Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
  • September 5 » Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
  • October 11 » Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
  • November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
  • November 26 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Sheila Scott, English pilot and author (b. 1922)