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Day of marriage October 5, 1907

• The temperature on October 5, 1907 was between 4.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
  • June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
  • November 16 » Cunard Line's RMSMauretania, sister ship of RMSLusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
  • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Day of death April 8, 1943

• The temperature on April 8, 1943 was between 1.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
  • April 16 » Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
  • May 14 » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSCentaur off the coast of Queensland.
  • July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
  • August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
  • December 13 » World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)