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Day of marriage January 29, 1916

• The temperature on January 29, 1916 was between 1.0 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 24 » In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
  • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.

Day of death May 27, 1984

• The temperature on May 27, 1984 was between 7.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • May 27 » The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
  • June 3 » Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
  • July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
  • August 11 » "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
  • October 5 » Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1984 » Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1987 » John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)