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Day of marriage January 10, 1912

• The temperature on January 10, 1912 was between 0.3 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
  • April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
  • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
  • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
  • November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death August 25, 1917

• The temperature on August 25, 1917 was between 9.7 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 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 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • June 13 » World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1924 » Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)