Gall/Genseal Family Tree » Elizabeth Cairns (1887-1963)

Day of marriage April 21, 1912

• The temperature on April 21, 1912 was between 6.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
  • January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
  • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
  • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
  • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Day of death July 15, 1963

• The temperature on July 15, 1963 was between 13.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
  • June 24 » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
  • June 26 » Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
  • August 15 » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
  • August 21 » Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
  • August 24 » Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (b. 1896)
• 1960 » Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
• 1961 » - Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
• 1961 » John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)