The Brown Tree » Eugenie Victoria (Queenie) HIGGINS (1885-1964)
Personal data Eugenie Victoria (Queenie) HIGGINS
Source 1- She was born on January 8, 1885 in Avoca,Wicklow,Ireland.
- She died on June 12, 1964 in Whangerei, Northland, New Zealand, she was 79 years old.
- A child of James HIGGINS and Sarah Jane LUKE
Household of Eugenie Victoria (Queenie) HIGGINS
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Birthday January 8, 1885
- The temperature on January 8, 1885 was about -0.2 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- 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.
- In the year 1885: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
- January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
- February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
- June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
- December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
Day of death June 12, 1964
- The temperature on June 12, 1964 was between 7.5 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
- March 20 » The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
- May 9 » Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô Đình Diệm before the family's toppling, is executed.
- July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
- August 28 » The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- September 13 » South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
Same birth/death day
- 1883 » Patrick J. Hurley, American general, politician, and diplomat, 51st United States Secretary of War († 1963)
- 1883 » Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet († 1941)
- 1885 » A. J. Muste, Dutch-American pastor and activist († 1967)
- 1885 » John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia († 1945)
- 1885 » Mór Kóczán, Hungarian javelin thrower and pastor († 1972)
- 1888 » Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic († 1972)
- 1957 » Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
- 1962 » John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
- 1963 » Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
- 1966 » Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)
- 1968 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
- 1969 » Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
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Wesley Brown, "The Brown Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-brown-tree/P5802.php : accessed January 31, 2026), "Eugenie Victoria (Queenie) HIGGINS (1885-1964)".