Riches to Rags Family Tree » Lelia Ann Chance (1901-1994)

Day of marriage July 22, 1920

• The temperature on July 22, 1920 was between 14.7 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). 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 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
  • February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
  • August 19 » The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.
  • November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Day of death March 27, 1994

• The temperature on March 27, 1994 was between -1.5 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (93%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • May 4 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
  • May 24 » Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
  • August 12 » Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
  • September 12 » Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
  • October 1 » Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
• 1993 » Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Lawrence Wetherby, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1908)
• 1995 » René Allio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)