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Day of marriage June 30, 1908

• The temperature on June 30, 1908 was between 10.3 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
  • January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
  • April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
  • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
  • August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
  • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

Day of death December 6, 1925

• The temperature on December 6, 1925 was between -12.3 °C and -3.3 °C and averaged -8.5 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
  • March 21 » Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • July 10 » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
  • August 5 » Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
  • September 3 » USSShenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
  • September 8 » Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)