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Day of marriage November 16, 1916

• The temperature on November 16, 1916 was between -3.1 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
  • March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
  • April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
  • June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
  • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
  • September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.

Day of death March 16, 1929

• The temperature on March 16, 1929 was between -1.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
  • August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1935 » John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1936 » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)