Edgecomb Family Tree » Winifred Lillian Gower Edgecomb (1925-2019)

Personal data Winifred Lillian Gower Edgecomb 

  • The name is of type 'name given at or near birth'
  • She was born on August 6, 1925 in Garland, Penobscot county, ME.
  • She died on April 6, 2019 in Waterville, Kennebec county, ME, she was 93 years old.
  • This information was last updated on March 4, 2020.

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She is married to Owen Bennett Edgecomb.

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Birthday August 6, 1925

  • The temperature on August 6, 1925 was between 10.3 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
    • March 18 » The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
    • April 10 » The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
    • May 5 » Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
    • May 14 » Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
    • July 21 » Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150mph (241km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33mph (242km/h).
    • August 5 » Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.


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