Carter-Aaron tree » May Barbara Ellen Torrey (1900-1985)

Personal data May Barbara Ellen Torrey 


Household of May Barbara Ellen Torrey

She is married to Herbert Duncan Goebel.

They got married.

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Historical events

Birthday September 14, 1900

  • The temperature on September 14, 1900 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
    • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
    • February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
    • March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
    • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
    • May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.

Day of death October 12, 1985

  • The temperature on October 12, 1985 was between 5.3 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
    • May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
    • August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
    • September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
    • October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
    • November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1898 » Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar († 1974)
  • 1898 » Hal B. Wallis, American film producer († 1986)
  • 1898 » Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector († 1979)
  • 1902 » Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist († 1993)
  • 1902 » Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter († 1977)
  • 1903 » Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author († 1980)

Source: Wikipedia


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