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Christening day September 8, 1895

• The temperature on September 8, 1895 was about 17.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
  • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
  • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
  • November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

Day of marriage October 9, 1909

• The temperature on October 9, 1909 was between 4.4 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.

Day of death December 15, 1970

• The temperature on December 15, 1970 was between 2.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
  • February 18 » The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
  • March 18 » Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
  • November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
  • November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
  • December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)
• 1968 » Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Karl Theodor Bleek, German lawyer and politician, 12th Mayor of Marburg (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)