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Day of marriage June 29, 1915

• The temperature on June 29, 1915 was between 12.3 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
  • 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.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.

Day of death January 9, 1954

• The average temperature on January 9, 1954 was 2.1 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
  • March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
  • April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
  • April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
  • May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
  • October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1890)
• 1945 » Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral and pilot (b. 1908)
• 1946 » Countee Cullen, American poet and playwright (b. 1903)
• 1947 » Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)