Rois Europe » Antoinette de Rochechouart (1893-1972)

Day of marriage August 3, 1916

• The temperature on August 3, 1916 was between 11.4 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
  • March 16 » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
  • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
  • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

Day of death September 10, 1972

• The temperature on September 10, 1972 was between 7.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
  • February 15 » Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
  • February 22 » The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
  • April 13 » The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
  • April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • July 1 » The first Gay pride march in England takes place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 » Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)