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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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    Birthday August 28, 1927

    • The temperature on August 28, 1927 was between 10.0 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °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.
      • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
      • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
      • July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
      • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
      • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
      • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

    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.
      • March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
      • April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
      • June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
      • July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
      • September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
      • November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
    

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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)
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