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Day of marriage December 18, 1915

• The temperature on December 18, 1915 was between 2.4 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • 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.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Day of death December 11, 1987

• The temperature on December 11, 1987 was between 2.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • May 17 » Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USSStark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
  • June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
  • July 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
  • September 16 » The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
  • October 19 » Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
  • November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 » George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 » G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
• 1989 » Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)