Genealogy Manuel » Minna Alexandra "Minnie" Biddulph (1864-1937)

Christening day September 11, 1864

• The temperature on September 11, 1864 was about 14.6 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
  • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
  • June 15 » American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
  • July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
  • November 15 » American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.

Day of death June 18, 1937

• The temperature on June 18, 1937 was between 6.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
  • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
  • September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

Day of burial June 21, 1937

• The temperature on June 21, 1937 was between 9.6 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
  • April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
  • April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
  • June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
• 1945 » Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1945 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)