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Day of marriage August 13, 1898

• The temperature on August 13, 1898 was about 29.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%. 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.
  • February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
  • February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
  • 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.
  • August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
  • August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
  • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

Day of death June 17, 1969

• The temperature on June 17, 1969 was between 11.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • March 16 » A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
  • May 21 » Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
  • June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
  • August 13 » The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
  • November 19 » Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1963 » Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
• 1968 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1889)
• 1975 » James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (b. 1898)