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Day of marriage February 22, 1906

• The temperature on February 22, 1906 was between -1.9 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
  • February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • October 16 » The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

Day of death August 11, 1970

• The temperature on August 11, 1970 was between 8.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
  • May 14 » Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
  • May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
  • July 8 » Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
  • August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
  • December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897)
• 1969 » Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)