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Day of marriage May 5, 1917

• The temperature on May 5, 1917 was between 5.7 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
  • June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
  • July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
  • November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.

Day of death September 29, 1976

• The temperature on September 29, 1976 was between 11.9 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • February 24 » The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
  • July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
  • July 17 » The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
  • September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
  • October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
  • December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917)
• 1970 » Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1973 » W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 1982 » Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)