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Day of marriage February 26, 1913

• The temperature on February 26, 1913 was between -2.5 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (70%). 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 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.
  • January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
  • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
  • July 31 » The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
  • December 1 » The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.

Day of death October 11, 1933

• The temperature on October 11, 1933 was between 11.7 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 4 » Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • March 15 » Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
  • April 24 » Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
  • May 12 » The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • August 14 » Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; it is not fully extinguished until September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970km).
  • December 6 » U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (b. 1846)
• 1932 » William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1876)