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Day of marriage January 8, 1918

• The temperature on January 8, 1918 was between -4.8 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 26 » Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
  • February 6 » British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
  • April 23 » World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
  • April 24 » World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
  • July 9 » In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
  • October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.

Day of death February 4, 1961

• The temperature on February 4, 1961 was between -0.9 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
  • April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
  • May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
  • May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
  • May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
  • November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
• 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)