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Day of marriage July 30, 1898

• The temperature on July 30, 1898 was about 13.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
  • May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
  • June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
  • September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
  • September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
  • October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

Day of death July 22, 1914

• The temperature on July 22, 1914 was between 16.2 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). 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 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
  • November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
• 1908 » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
• 1920 » William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)