McCaughey Kelly Family Tree » Alice Maud Bailey (1895-1960)

Day of marriage November 30, 1915

• The temperature on November 30, 1915 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

Day of death November 9, 1960

• The temperature on November 9, 1960 was between -2.6 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
  • April 19 » Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
  • June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
  • July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
  • August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
  • December 16 » A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1953 » Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1880)
• 1953 » Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
• 1956 » Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (b. 1872)
• 1962 » Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (b. 1858)