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Christening day September 5, 1920

• The temperature on September 5, 1920 was between 10.8 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • April 23 » The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
  • May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
  • May 7 » Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  • August 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
  • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
  • August 19 » The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.

Day of death May 7, 2013

• The temperature on May 7, 2013 was between 9.8 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
  • March 13 » The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
  • April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
  • June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
  • September 16 » A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.

Day of burial May 13, 2013

• The temperature on May 13, 2013 was between 7.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 15 » A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
  • March 13 » The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
  • April 16 » The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
  • June 27 » NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
  • June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
  • August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Dennis E. Fitch, American captain and pilot (b. 1942)
• 2012 » Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1943)
• 2012 » Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• 2013 » George Sauer, Jr., American football player (b. 1943)
• 2014 » Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (b. 1923)