Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Anna Helena - Maria Helena Roesler (1898-1972)

Christening day October 24, 1898

• The temperature on October 24, 1898 was about 11.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
  • June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
  • August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
  • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
  • November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
  • December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

Day of marriage November 5, 1921

• The temperature on November 5, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
  • November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.

Day of death March 13, 1972

• The temperature on March 13, 1972 was between -2.3 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
  • April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
  • April 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
  • June 23 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
  • October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
  • November 11 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 » Ole Haugsrud, American sports executive (b. 1900)