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Day of marriage May 29, 1869

• The temperature on May 29, 1869 was about 9.3 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  • March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
  • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
  • June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
  • September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Day of death January 9, 1912

• The temperature on January 9, 1912 was between -1.4 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
  • September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
  • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
  • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840)
• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)
• 1911 » Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1911 » Edwin Arthur Jones, American violinist and composer (b. 1853)
• 1917 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)