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Personal data Norma Beatrice TOWNS 

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Household of Norma Beatrice TOWNS

She is married to William Vernard DARGAN.

They got married

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Sources

  1. Robert Cook, Cook, Robert. Supplied by compiler Korrumburra, Victoria, Australia. 2013.

Historical events

Birthday August 7, 1904

  • The temperature on August 7, 1904 was between 13.1 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
    • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
    • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
    • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
    • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
    • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.

Day of death May 23, 1997

  • The temperature on May 23, 1997 was between 5.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
    • May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
    • July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
    • September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
    • October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
    • December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
  • 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
  • 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
  • 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
  • 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
  • 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)

Source: Wikipedia


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