Genealogy Harssema » Raymond Ralph BENSON Sr. (1912-1995)

Personal data Raymond Ralph BENSON Sr. 


Household of Raymond Ralph BENSON Sr.

He is married to Margaret Lu OSTERHAUS.

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Raymond Ralph BENSON
1912-1995


Margaret Lu OSTERHAUS
1920-1982

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Birthday April 9, 1912

  • The temperature on April 9, 1912 was between 0.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
    • January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
    • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
    • July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
    • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
    • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

Day of death August 27, 1995

  • The temperature on August 27, 1995 was between 9.7 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
    • February 22 » The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
    • June 26 » Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
    • August 15 » In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
    • October 15 » Marco Campos dies in a race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
    • November 10 » In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
    • December 20 » American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.


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