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Day of marriage August 8, 1914

• The temperature on August 8, 1914 was between 7.7 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
  • April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
  • August 5 » World War I: The German minelayer SSKönigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMSAmphion.
  • September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
  • November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death April 14, 1994

• The temperature on April 14, 1994 was between 4.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
  • January 25 » The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
  • April 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
  • September 3 » Sino-Soviet split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
  • September 30 » Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from central London, closes.
  • November 22 » The Sega Saturn is released in Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
• 1990 » Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
• 1992 » Irene Greenwood, Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (b. 1898)
• 1994 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 1995 » Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911)