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Christening day April 7, 1931

• The temperature on April 7, 1931 was between -1.7 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
  • August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
  • October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
  • October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
  • October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.

Day of marriage March 24, 1740

• The temperature on March 24, 1740 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
  • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
  • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
  • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
  • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
  • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of death June 23, 1748

• The temperature on June 23, 1748 was about 23.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1748: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 11 » Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
  • August 26 » The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
  • October 12 » War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
  • October 18 » Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1707 » John Mill, English theologian and author (b. 1645)
• 1733 » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (b. 1672)
• 1770 » Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
• 1775 » Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and author (b. 1692)
• 1779 » Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
• 1806 » Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)