Landgraf-Klein Genealogie » Otto Kurt Kuhn (1893-1964)

Day of marriage August 12, 1916

• The temperature on August 12, 1916 was between 9.8 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
  • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
  • November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
  • November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
  • November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Day of death March 5, 1964

• The temperature on March 5, 1964 was between -1.4 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • April 7 » A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
  • May 20 » Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
  • July 27 » Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
  • August 27 » South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
  • September 21 » The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
  • September 27 » The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 1963 » Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
• 1965 » Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1965 » Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (b. 1889)