Teague-Earnest Family Tree » Bertha Anna Matzke (1890-1988)

Day of marriage June 11, 1908

• The temperature on June 11, 1908 was between 9.2 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
  • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
  • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

Day of death July 27, 1988

• The temperature on July 27, 1988 was between 11.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (65%). 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
  • April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
  • May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
  • May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
  • November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
  • December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
• 1987 » Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1990 » René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 » John Friedrich, German-Australian engineer and conman (b. 1950)