AlleFriezen te Leeuwarden, BS Geboorte Gemeentebestuur van Leeuwarden, 1811-1941 - Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Bron: boe..., Leeuwarden, archief 1002, inventarisnummer 3449, 30 oktober 1900, Geboorteregister 1900, aktenummer 679
AlleFriezen te Leeuwarden, BS Overlijden Gemeentebestuur van Leeuwarden, 1942-1971 - Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Bron: boe..., Leeuwarden, archief 1003, inventarisnummer 5527, 21 augustus 1962, Overlijdensregister 1962 II, aktenummer 346 II
AlleFriezen te Leeuwarden, BS Huwelijk Burgerlijke Stand Workum - Tresoar, Deel: 2059, Periode: 1934, Workum, archief 30-43, inventarisnummer 2059, 12 september 1934, Huwelijksregister 1934, aktenummer 17
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Day of marriage September 12, 1934
The temperature on September 12, 1934 was between 13.3 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
Day of death August 19, 1962
The temperature on August 19, 1962 was between 4.9 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
July 8 » Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
July 10 » Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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