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Day of marriage February 13, 1915

• The temperature on February 13, 1915 was between 0.4 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
  • July 16 » At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

Day of death August 3, 1963

• The temperature on August 3, 1963 was between 16.2 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
  • March 8 » The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
  • June 10 » The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
  • July 24 » The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
  • August 15 » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
  • November 2 » South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1959 » Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1968 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (b. 1896)