Rois Europe » Marie Hortense Boyer (1883-1983)

Day of marriage February 16, 1914

• The temperature on February 16, 1914 was between 4.0 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
  • September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
  • September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

Day of death May 8, 1983

• The temperature on May 8, 1983 was between 8.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
  • July 23 » Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
  • September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
  • October 4 » Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
  • October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
  • December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)