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Historical events

Birthday November 23, 1915

  • The temperature on November 23, 1915 was between -4.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
    • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
    • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
    • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
    • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death September 26, 1977

  • The temperature on September 26, 1977 was between 7.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1977: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
    • March 9 » The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
    • May 25 » Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
    • May 28 » In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
    • September 5 » Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
    • September 7 » The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
    • October 6 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1914 » Donald Nixon, American businessman († 1987)
  • 1914 » Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author († 2006)
  • 1915 » Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot († 2001)
  • 1915 » John Dehner, American actor († 1992)
  • 1915 » Marc Simont, French-American illustrator († 2013)
  • 1916 » Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor († 2011)

Source: Wikipedia


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