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Day of marriage April 15, 1868

• The temperature on April 15, 1868 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• 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 1868: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
  • August 13 » The 8.5–9.0 M_w  Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
  • September 25 » The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
  • October 10 » The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
  • November 30 » A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården.
  • December 9 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

Day of death May 26, 1930

• The temperature on May 26, 1930 was between 9.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
  • June 1 » The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives.
  • October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
  • October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1939 » Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)