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Christening day November 5, 1916

• The temperature on November 5, 1916 was between 10.8 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
  • September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

Day of death January 7, 1988

• The temperature on January 7, 1988 was between 4.4 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
  • August 8 » The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.
  • August 31 » Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
  • November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  • December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (b. 1917))
• 1988 » Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (b.1919)
• 1989 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1908)