Clarke Family Tree » Grace Veronica Benfield (1923-2000)

Personal data Grace Veronica Benfield 


Household of Grace Veronica Benfield

She is married to Leslie Arthur Watts.

They got married about 1956 at Sydney, NSW, AU.

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Historical events

Birthday February 27, 1923

  • The temperature on February 27, 1923 was between 3.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
    • August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
    • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
    • October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.
    • October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
    • November 11 » Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

Day of death December 28, 2000

  • The temperature on December 28, 2000 was between -2.0 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
    • January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
    • January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
    • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
    • August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
    • November 1 » Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
    • November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1920 » Reg Simpson, English cricketer († 2013)
  • 1921 » Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator († 2014)
  • 1922 » Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch historian, author, and scholar († 1977)
  • 1923 » Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor († 1990)
  • 1925 » Kenneth Koch, American poet, playwright and professor († 2002)
  • 1925 » Pia Sebastiani, Argentine pianist and composer († 2015)

Source: Wikipedia


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