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Day of marriage May 8, 1897

• The temperature on May 8, 1897 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
  • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
  • September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
  • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

Day of death July 30, 1953

• The temperature on July 30, 1953 was between 10.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
  • January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
  • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
  • April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
  • November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
  • November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
• 1941 » Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Joseph Cook, English-Australian miner and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1970 » George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (b. 1874)