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Day of marriage November 3, 1915

• The temperature on November 3, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Day of death June 27, 1943

• The temperature on June 27, 1943 was between 9.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 9 » World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
  • May 30 » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • July 22 » World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
  • September 10 » World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
  • October 14 » World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878)
• 1946 » Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
• 1949 » Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (b. 1901)