Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » Vera Marie Webb (1901-1994)

Day of marriage June 29, 1927

• The temperature on June 29, 1927 was between 7.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

Day of death November 20, 1994

• The temperature on November 20, 1994 was between 9.1 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • May 18 » Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
  • June 14 » The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
  • October 27 » Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
  • November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
  • December 3 » The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930)
• 1995 » Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
• 1997 » Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945)