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Day of marriage August 11, 1910

• The temperature on August 11, 1910 was between 11.5 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
  • June 25 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
  • August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
  • November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Day of death October 7, 1962

• The temperature on October 7, 1962 was between 5.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
  • September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
  • September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
  • October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
  • November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)