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Personal data Russel Alford 


Household of Russel Alford

He is married to Dorothy May Allender.

They got married on July 15, 1922 at Indiana, Verenigde Staten, he was 22 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday June 17, 1900

  • The temperature on June 17, 1900 was about 17.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
    • February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
    • February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
    • March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
    • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
    • July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.

Day of death January 23, 1960

  • The temperature on January 23, 1960 was between 8.4 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
    • May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
    • July 1 » Independence of Somalia.
    • July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
    • August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
    • August 19 » Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
    • November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1898 » Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic († 1961)
  • 1898 » Harry Patch, English soldier and firefighter († 2009)
  • 1898 » M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator († 1972)
  • 1900 » Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent († 2000)
  • 1900 » Martin Bormann, German politician († 1945)
  • 1902 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer († 1989)

Source: Wikipedia


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