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Personal data William Frank Lowrance 


Household of William Frank Lowrance

He is married to Margaret Caroline Gerdes.

They got married on January 1, 1940 at fortasse, somewhere, Verenigde Staten, he was 25 years old.


Notes about William Frank Lowrance

William Frank Lowrance

Sources: Author: Mueller, Ken; Title: "Ancestors of Vernon Harold Gerdes," (Publication site unknown, Publisher: KM, Publication date: sent xii Feb MMXXV), Pg. 6

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Historical events

Birthday April 30, 1914

  • The temperature on April 30, 1914 was between 6.5 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
    • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
    • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
    • October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
    • November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
    • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Day of death March 2, 2003

  • The temperature on March 2, 2003 was between 5.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
    • February 18 » Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
    • March 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
    • July 15 » AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
    • July 22 » Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
    • August 10 » European heat wave: The then-highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, England. This record was later surpassed in July 2019.
    • September 25 » The 8.3 Mw  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1914 » Charles Beetham, American middle-distance runner († 1997)
  • 1914 » Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter († 2008)
  • 1916 » Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer († 2001)
  • 1916 » Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and author († 2003)
  • 1916 » Robert Shaw, American conductor († 1999)
  • 1917 » Bea Wain, American singer († 2017)

Source: Wikipedia


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