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Day of marriage August 2, 1909

• The temperature on August 2, 1909 was between 9.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Day of death January 5, 1961

• The temperature on January 5, 1961 was between 2.0 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
  • March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
  • April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
  • May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
  • August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
  • October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887)
• 1954 » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)