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Day of marriage August 16, 1917

• The temperature on August 16, 1917 was between 13.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.

Day of death February 22, 1920

• The temperature on February 22, 1920 was between -0.7 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (79%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
  • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
  • October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
  • November 2 » In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1904 » Leslie Stephen, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)
• 1913 » Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
• 1913 » Francisco I. Madero, Mexican president and author (b. 1873)
• 1923 » Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)
• 1939 » Antonio Machado, Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)