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Day of marriage May 3, 1906

• The temperature on May 3, 1906 was between 7.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
  • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
  • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Day of death November 5, 1962

• The temperature on November 5, 1962 was between 3.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
  • March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
  • July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
  • September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
  • September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
  • October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (b. 1891)
• 1960 » Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (b. 1895)
• 1960 » Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1960 » Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1960 » Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1902)