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Day of marriage July 23, 1909

• The temperature on July 23, 1909 was between 12.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

Day of death October 19, 1955

• The temperature on October 19, 1955 was between 0.5 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
  • April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
  • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
  • June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
  • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  • September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1952 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)
• 1960 » George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1964 » Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)