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Day of marriage January 15, 1915

• The temperature on January 15, 1915 was between 7.6 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

Day of death May 26, 1972

• The temperature on May 26, 1972 was between 10.4 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • January 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • April 25 » Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
  • May 30 » The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
  • August 22 » Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
  • December 26 » Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)