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Day of marriage September 25, 1913

• The temperature on September 25, 1913 was between 6.4 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • April 8 » The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
  • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
  • August 10 » Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
  • December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
  • December 24 » The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire".

Day of death January 22, 1962

• The temperature on January 22, 1962 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • January 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
  • April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
  • August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
  • August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
  • November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1964 » Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1890)