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Day of marriage April 5, 1889

• The temperature on April 5, 1889 was about 5.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
  • January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
  • November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
  • November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

Day of death September 29, 1962

• The temperature on September 29, 1962 was between 8.9 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
  • January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
  • January 11 » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
  • June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
  • September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
  • October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
• 1952 » John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917)
• 1970 » Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1973 » W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)