Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Edith Elizabeth Luebbers (1903-1992)

Christening day February 27, 1903

• The temperature on February 27, 1903 was between 2.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

Day of death April 23, 1992

• The temperature on April 23, 1992 was between 5.5 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • March 13 » The M_w  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
  • March 22 » USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
  • April 27 » Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
  • May 7 » Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
  • June 15 » The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
  • August 24 » Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category5 hurricane, causing up to $25billion (1992 USD) in damages.

Day of burial April 27, 1992

• The temperature on April 27, 1992 was between 8.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 6 » President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
  • March 2 » Start of the war in Transnistria.
  • April 5 » Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
  • September 28 » A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
  • December 3 » A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
  • December 14 » War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
• 1992 » Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Tanka Prasad Acharya, Nepalese politician, 27th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (b. 1927)
• 1995 » Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1895)