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Day of marriage January 25, 1906

• The temperature on January 25, 1906 was between -3.3 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
  • December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Day of death April 24, 1953

• The temperature on April 24, 1953 was between 4.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
  • January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
  • February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
  • April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
  • June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
  • August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 » Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
• 1947 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Guy Mairesse, French race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1960 » Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)