Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Edith E. Huibregtse (1919-2013)

Day of marriage November 17, 1938

• The temperature on November 17, 1938 was between 2.9 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Day of death February 17, 2013

• The temperature on February 17, 2013 was between -1.9 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 22 » At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
  • April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • April 20 » A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
  • June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
  • September 17 » Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
  • December 14 » A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

Day of burial February 23, 2013

• The temperature on February 23, 2013 was between -4.6 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 8 » A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
  • April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • May 20 » An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
  • June 23 » Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan killing ten climbers, and a local guide.
  • November 8 » Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
  • December 9 » At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2012 » Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1916)
• 2013 » Mindy McCready, American singer-songwriter (b. 1975)
• 2013 » Richard Briers, English actor (b. 1934)
• 2013 » Shmulik Kraus, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1935)
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