Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Florence Adele Lauer (1898-1975)

Day of marriage January 25, 1917

• The temperature on January 25, 1917 was between -10.8 °C and -4.1 °C and averaged -7.8 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
  • March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
  • March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
  • April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

Day of death June 12, 1975

• The temperature on June 12, 1975 was between 12.1 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless 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.
  • March 25 » Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
  • July 30 » Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
  • September 29 » WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
  • November 10 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
  • November 25 » Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1978 » Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)