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Day of marriage May 15, 1915

• The temperature on May 15, 1915 was between 0.1 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (82%). 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 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • 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 January 11, 1975

• The temperature on January 11, 1975 was between 5.7 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
  • June 1 » The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
  • June 24 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
  • September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
  • September 30 » The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
  • November 7 » In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
• 1969 » Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Padraic Colum, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Max Lorenz, German tenor and actor (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889)