Descendants Clement Corbin » Oliver 'Lyle' Corbin (1908-2002)

Day of marriage December 3, 1928

• The temperature on December 3, 1928 was between 5.6 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Day of death March 19, 2002

• The temperature on March 19, 2002 was between 7.5 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • February 22 » Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
  • April 12 » A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
  • May 6 » Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
  • June 24 » The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
  • July 1 » Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
  • November 13 » During the Prestige oil spill a storm burst a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002 off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2000 » Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2000 » Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Pakistani physician and author (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
• 2005 » John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)