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Day of marriage December 23, 1916

• The temperature on December 23, 1916 was between 0.6 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 24 » Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
  • November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

Day of death June 11, 1979

• The temperature on June 11, 1979 was between 10.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
  • June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
  • June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
  • September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
  • October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898)
• 1976 » Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (b. 1893)
• 1979 » John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (b. 1894)