Sherren Family Tree » Kathleen Sylvia Phillips (1896-1986)

Christening day May 5, 1896

• The temperature on May 5, 1896 was about 11.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
  • November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Day of death March 8, 1986

• The temperature on March 8, 1986 was between -1.7 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
  • February 28 » Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
  • May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
  • June 14 » The Mindbender derails and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park in Edmonton, Alberta.
  • July 6 » Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
  • August 31 » The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

Day of burial March 19, 1986

• The temperature on March 19, 1986 was between 4.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
  • April 29 » A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
  • June 4 » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
  • October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
  • November 22 » Mike Tyson from Brooklyn, New York becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history at age 20.
  • November 25 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1988 » Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912)