Olson's Tree » Helen Phelps Stokes (1905-2004)
Personal data Helen Phelps Stokes
Source 1- She was born on October 28, 1905 in Pune, India.
- She died on August 10, 2004 in Bedford Hills, Westchester, New York, USA, she was 98 years old.
- A child of Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes and Edith Minturn
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Historical events
Birthday October 28, 1905
- The temperature on October 28, 1905 was between 5.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
- February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
- June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
- September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
- November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
- November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
- December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
Day of death August 10, 2004
- The temperature on August 10, 2004 was between 17.8 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 21.1 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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, 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
- March 12 » The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
- April 22 » Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
- May 1 » Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
- July 4 » Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
- August 1 » A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
- November 8 » Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Same birth/death day
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- 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
- 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
- 1905 » Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician († 1984)
- 1907 » John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic († 1987)
- 2001 » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
- 2002 » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
- 2002 » Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
- 2007 » Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1925)
- 2007 » James E. Faust, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1920)
- 2007 » Jean Rédélé, French race car driver and pilot, founded Alpine (b. 1922)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P19271.php : accessed May 1, 2025), "Helen Phelps Stokes (1905-2004)".