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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 31 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
  • March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Day of death April 26, 1954

• The temperature on April 26, 1954 was between 2.3 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
  • September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
  • October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
  • December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
• 1950 » George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)