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Day of marriage October 7, 1909

• The temperature on October 7, 1909 was between 4.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

Day of death July 6, 1966

• The temperature on July 6, 1966 was between 12.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • March 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
  • March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
  • July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
  • July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
  • August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
  • November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
• 1962 » William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1963 » George, duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Claude V. Ricketts, American admiral (b. 1906)
• 1966 » Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (b. 1902)