The temperature on January 31, 1886 was about 1.3 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
Day of marriage September 6, 1909
The temperature on September 6, 1909 was between 6.4 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Day of death August 8, 1968
The temperature on August 8, 1968 was between 14.1 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 30 » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
July 8 » The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Gerard Spapens, "Family tree Spapens-Luijpen en Michielsen-van Loosdrecht", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-spapens-luijpen-en-michielsen-van-loosdrecht/I583.php : accessed June 24, 2024), "Johanna Cornelia Maria Spapens (1886-1968)".
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