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Ancestors (and descendant) of William John BEST

George BEST
1872-????
Jane SLOAN
1872-????
Samuel BEST
1897-1982

William John BEST
1927-2001


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    Historical events

    Birthday August 28, 1927

    • The temperature on August 28, 1927 was between 11.0 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
      • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
      • March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
      • March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
      • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
      • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
      • September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

    Day of death April 28, 2001

    • The temperature on April 28, 2001 was between 6.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
      • February 11 » A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
      • May 1 » Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
      • July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
      • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
      • September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
      • October 11 » The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
    

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    • 1999 » Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
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    • 2000 » Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
    • 2000 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (b. 1916)
    • 2002 » Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (b. 1950)
    • 2002 » Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1916)

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