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Day of marriage December 16, 1916

• The temperature on December 16, 1916 was between 0.9 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
  • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
  • August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.

Day of death December 19, 1952

• The temperature on December 19, 1952 was between -4.0 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1952: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
  • April 15 » First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
  • July 3 » The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
  • July 7 » The ocean liner SSUnited States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
  • September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
  • December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)