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Day of marriage May 9, 1917

• The temperature on May 9, 1917 was between 5.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
  • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Day of death February 27, 1968

• The temperature on February 27, 1968 was between -4.3 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
  • February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
  • February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
  • April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
  • October 14 » The 6.5 M_w  Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
  • November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1969 » Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 1977 » John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)