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Christening day October 24, 1909

• The temperature on October 24, 1909 was between 6.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
  • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

Day of marriage August 11, 1938

• The temperature on August 11, 1938 was between 16.2 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
  • April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
  • November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.

Day of death January 28, 1995

• The temperature on January 28, 1995 was between 3.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
  • February 22 » The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
  • May 2 » During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
  • September 28 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  • October 28 » The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
  • November 10 » In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.

Day of burial February 2, 1995

• The temperature on February 2, 1995 was between 0.9 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • May 2 » During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
  • June 26 » Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
  • July 27 » The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
  • October 6 » The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
  • November 12 » Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.
  • December 3 » Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1999 » Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)