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Day of marriage May 1, 1917

• The temperature on May 1, 1917 was between 0.4 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
  • April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
  • November 7 » World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death January 7, 1974

• The temperature on January 7, 1974 was between 3.3 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • April 29 » Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
  • May 9 » Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
  • May 16 » Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
  • July 20 » Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
  • November 20 » The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
  • November 24 » Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer(b. 1908)
• 1981 » Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1926)