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Day of marriage April 13, 1918

• The temperature on April 13, 1918 was between 5.4 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
  • April 8 » World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
  • July 4 » World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
  • July 6 » The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
  • November 9 » Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
  • December 17 » Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Day of death August 22, 1962

• The temperature on August 22, 1962 was between 12.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • March 19 » Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
  • June 2 » During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
  • July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
  • July 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
  • October 11 » The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
  • November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)