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John Rose
1817-1895

William Andrew Beckstead
1867-1953


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    Historical events

    • The temperature on October 23, 1867 was about 16.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
    • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
      • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
      • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
      • October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
      • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
      • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
    • The temperature on January 27, 1953 was between 1.2 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
      • February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
      • March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
      • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
      • May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
      • August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
      • December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
    

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    Allan Lewis Orr, "My BIG TREE Orr, Mitchell, Murray, Glazer, Honkanen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/my-big-tree-orr/I422320299417.php : accessed June 9, 2024), "William Andrew Beckstead (1867-1953)".