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Day of marriage November 26, 1881

• The temperature on November 26, 1881 was about 10.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 33 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

Day of death December 9, 1945

• The temperature on December 9, 1945 was between -9.8 °C and -4.2 °C and averaged -7.2 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • March 29 » World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
  • April 5 » Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
  • May 2 » World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
  • June 14 » World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
  • July 26 » World War II: The USSIndianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.
  • December 12 » The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)