Barber Family Tree » Nancy Pernell "Nannie" Steeley (1868-1941)

Day of marriage December 10, 1885

• The temperature on December 10, 1885 was about -2.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
  • March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
  • March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
  • March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
  • November 19 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

Day of death October 8, 1941

• The temperature on October 8, 1941 was between 12.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • March 29 » World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
  • May 13 » World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting against German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
  • June 8 » World War II: The Allies commence the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
  • December 10 » World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
  • December 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.
  • December 21 » World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1942 » Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Felix Salten, Austrian author and critic (b. 1869)