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Day of marriage May 30, 1891

• The temperature on May 30, 1891 was about 13.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
  • February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
  • March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
  • May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
  • August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
  • October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.

Day of death April 12, 1953

• The temperature on April 12, 1953 was between 6.1 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
  • May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
  • June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
  • November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.
  • November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
  • November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Lionel Logue, Australian actor and therapist (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1966 » Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)