Kelson Burbank Genealogy » Florence Ella Robinson Adams Mitchell (1876-1962)

Day of marriage December 23, 1895

• The temperature on December 23, 1895 was about -1.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
  • April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
  • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
  • November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

Day of death August 22, 1962

• The temperature on August 22, 1962 was between 12.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
  • June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
  • June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
  • July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • July 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
  • December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)