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Day of marriage October 14, 1911

• The temperature on October 14, 1911 was between 9.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Day of death April 17, 1984

• The temperature on April 17, 1984 was between -1.5 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
  • September 14 » Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • September 21 » Brunei joins the United Nations.
  • October 12 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
  • December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)