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Day of marriage August 20, 1904

• The temperature on August 20, 1904 was between 6.3 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.

Day of death August 30, 1939

• The temperature on August 30, 1939 was between 12.2 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
  • March 30 » The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463mph (745km/h).
  • September 6 » World War II: Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
  • October 14 » World War II: The German submarineU-47 sinks the British battleship HMSRoyal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
  • November 8 » In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
  • November 23 » World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

Day of burial September 2, 1939

• The temperature on September 2, 1939 was between 12.4 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • May 21 » The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • August 23 » World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
  • September 4 » World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
  • September 30 » World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
  • December 13 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMSExeter, HMSAjax and HMSAchilles.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1936 » Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
• 1940 » J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1941 » Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)