Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Agnes D. Vergowe (1912-2001)

Day of marriage March 23, 1940

• The temperature on March 23, 1940 was between 5.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
  • June 4 » World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
  • June 17 » World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
  • November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
  • December 22 » World War II: Himara is captured by the Greek army.

Day of death March 11, 2001

• The temperature on March 11, 2001 was between 8.8 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
  • February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
  • May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
  • June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
  • September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Vince Edwards, American actor and director (b. 1928)
• 1999 » Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (b. 1906)
• 2002 » James Tobin, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2006 » Slobodan Milošević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)