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Day of marriage April 15, 1912

• The temperature on April 15, 1912 was between 2.9 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (83%). 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 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
  • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

Day of death May 30, 1957

• The temperature on May 30, 1957 was between 5.3 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
  • March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  • April 9 » The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
  • August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
  • September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
  • October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

Day of burial June 3, 1957

• The temperature on June 3, 1957 was between 10.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (47%). 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • April 6 » Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
  • May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
  • August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1951 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1957 » Piero Carini, Italian race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1960 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)