January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
Day of death August 7, 1960
The temperature on August 7, 1960 was between 11.8 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Leo van Vessem, "De Zeeuwse familie Van Vessem", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/de-zeeuwse-familie-van-vessem/I503023.php : accessed May 14, 2024), "Adolph Wilhelm Karel Fontaine (1897-1960)".
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.