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Day of marriage January 29, 1914

• The temperature on January 29, 1914 was between 2.1 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

Day of death November 24, 1953

• The temperature on November 24, 1953 was between -3.8 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
  • April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
  • September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.
  • November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
  • November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
• 1954 » Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1959 » Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883)