Family tree familie Eilders » Ben Adolphs (1916-1990)

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Household of Ben Adolphs


(2) He is married to Margret Dorothy Ridder.

They got married on January 22, 1940 at Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Kenneth Dale Adolphs  1949-2021 
  2. Marvin Ben Adolphs  1941-2022 
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Birthday March 29, 1916

  • The temperature on March 29, 1916 was between 0.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
    • March 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
    • March 16 » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
    • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
    • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
    • November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

Day of marriage January 22, 1940

  • The temperature on January 22, 1940 was between -15.3 °C and -9 °C and averaged -11.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
    • June 10 » World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
    • June 17 » The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
    • June 17 » World War II: RMSLancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
    • September 18 » World War II: The British liner SSCity of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
    • October 28 » Second World War: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
    • November 27 » World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

Day of death December 3, 1990

  • The temperature on December 3, 1990 was between 3.9 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
    • April 24 » STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
    • May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
    • May 17 » The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
    • May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
    • June 20 » Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
    • November 15 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1914 » Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author († 2014)
  • 1914 » Phil Foster, American actor († 1985)
  • 1916 » Eugene McCarthy, American poet and politician († 2005)
  • 1916 » Peter Geach, English philosopher and academic († 2013)
  • 1917 » Tommy Holmes, American baseball player († 2008)
  • 1918 » Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer († 1990)

Source: Wikipedia


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