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Day of marriage November 25, 1915

• The temperature on November 25, 1915 was between -0.1 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

Day of death February 1, 1971

• The temperature on February 1, 1971 was between -2.0 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
  • June 13 » Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
  • August 5 » The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
  • September 9 » The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
  • November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
  • December 16 » The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)