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Day of marriage July 28, 1917

• The temperature on July 28, 1917 was between 10.9 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

Day of death May 23, 1970

• The temperature on May 23, 1970 was between 3.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
  • April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
  • April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
  • July 3 » The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • August 9 » LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
  • November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
• 1962 » Louis Coatalen, French engineer (b. 1879)
• 1963 » August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (b. 1904)
• 1965 » David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Moms Mabley, American comedian and actor (b. 1894)
• 1979 » S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)