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Day of marriage August 4, 1905

• The temperature on August 4, 1905 was between 15.8 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
  • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
  • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Day of death October 30, 1968

• The temperature on October 30, 1968 was between 8.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa.
  • March 7 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
  • April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
  • June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
  • July 1 » Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
  • October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
• 1965 » Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (b. 1888)
• 1966 » Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)