January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
Day of death May 4, 1983
The temperature on May 4, 1983 was between 3.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Nicole Spaans, "Family tree Spaans, Blom, Vieveen, Sebel, van Heijningen, de Voogd, van der Geest", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-spaans-blom-vieveen-sebel-van-heijningen-de-voogd-van-der-geest/I501663.php : accessed June 17, 2024), "Willem Johannes Bekker (1903-1983)".
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