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Day of marriage August 9, 1906

• The temperature on August 9, 1906 was between 14.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
  • November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  • December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Day of death March 10, 1954

• The temperature on March 10, 1954 was between 3.6 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
  • March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
  • March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
  • April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
  • June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
  • November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)