The temperature on March 20, 1906 was between 0.6 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
Day of marriage January 12, 1927
The temperature on January 12, 1927 was between 3.8 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of death May 28, 1980
The temperature on May 28, 1980 was between 9.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
July 24 » The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
August 14 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
September 5 » The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
September 17 » After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
December 11 » The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Lucas van Heeren, "Genealogy Biesheuvel", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie-biesheuvel/I26677.php : accessed June 4, 2024), "Adriana BRAS (1906-1980)".
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.