The temperature on February 20, 1909 was between -2.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
Day of death May 31, 1995
The temperature on May 31, 1995 was between 10.6 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 16 » Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
July 5 » Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
October 15 » Marco Campos dies in a race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
November 12 » Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.
November 22 » Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
December 6 » Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Kerri Wiggins, "Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/wiggins-mergenthaler-family-tree/P2843.php : accessed May 13, 2025), "Margaret Rose Minder (1909-1995)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.