Family tree Van Knippenberg » Alta Fae Sperry (1886-1981)

Personal data Alta Fae Sperry 


Household of Alta Fae Sperry

She is married to Frederick (Freiderich) Wilhelm Knippenberg.

They got married on December 30, 1903 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA, she was 17 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Fred Alton Knippenberg  1904-1964 
  3. Ruth L. Knippenberg  1908-1992 

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Historical events

Day of marriage December 30, 1903

  • The temperature on December 30, 1903 was between -8.4 °C and -1.8 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (78%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
    • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
    • April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
    • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
    • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
    • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
    • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Day of death July 3, 1981

  • The temperature on July 3, 1981 was between 12.0 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
    • March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​⁄2 million units around the world.
    • June 5 » The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
    • June 11 » A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
    • June 27 » The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
    • July 17 » A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
    • July 27 » While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1977 » Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1891)
  • 1978 » James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 1979 » Louis Durey, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)
  • 1981 » Ross Martin, American actor and director (b. 1920)
  • 1985 » Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1893)
  • 1986 » Rudy Vallée, American singer, saxophonist, and actor (b. 1901)

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