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Day of marriage May 19, 1917

• The temperature on May 19, 1917 was between 11.0 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
  • February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • June 23 » In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
  • August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
  • November 7 » World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

Day of death December 4, 1960

• The temperature on December 4, 1960 was between 7.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 38.7 mm of rain during 14.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) 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 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 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
  • February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
  • February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
  • September 2 » The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
  • November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (b. 1881)
• 1955 » József Galamb, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1969 » Fred Hampton, American Black Panthers activist (b. 1948)
• 1971 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center (b. 1904)