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Day of marriage December 22, 1915

• The temperature on December 22, 1915 was between -3.5 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Day of death May 24, 1962

• The temperature on May 24, 1962 was between 7.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
  • July 6 » The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
  • August 16 » Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.
  • November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
  • December 2 » Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
  • December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 1965 » Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908)