Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Emma (Emily) Kretschmann (1911-2000)

Day of marriage March 9, 1929

• The temperature on March 9, 1929 was between -2.2 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
  • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
  • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

Day of death March 7, 2000

• The temperature on March 7, 2000 was between 7.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The almost completely overcast 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 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.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
  • September 26 » Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
  • October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
  • October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
  • November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 » Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)