Rois Europe » Rose Thérèse (Thérèse) Gaultier (1890-1976)

Day of marriage October 23, 1916

• The temperature on October 23, 1916 was between 0.4 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (57%). 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
  • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

Day of death June 12, 1976

• The temperature on June 12, 1976 was between 10.2 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
  • March 9 » Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
  • June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • June 29 » The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
  • October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
  • November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1978 » Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)