In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
Day of marriage July 26, 1920
The temperature on July 26, 1920 was between 10.9 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
April 15 » Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
April 25 » At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
Day of death September 23, 1979
The temperature on September 23, 1979 was between 1.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
September 20 » A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Hans Lington, "Database Langton / Lengton / Lington - Heil - Rahder", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/database-langton/I56.php : accessed October 2, 2026), "Margaretha Maria Baas (1893-1979)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.