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Day of marriage June 30, 1909

• The temperature on June 30, 1909 was between 10.8 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.

Day of death March 28, 1941

• The temperature on March 28, 1941 was between 4.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • May 15 » First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
  • December 10 » World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
  • December 11 » World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
  • December 25 » Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
  • December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)
• 1941 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1882)
• 1942 » Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1943 » Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)