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Day of marriage May 17, 1860

• The temperature on May 17, 1860 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • April 6 » The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
  • May 3 » Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
  • August 5 » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
  • September 7 » Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
  • October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).

Day of death February 3, 1904

• The temperature on February 3, 1904 was between 0.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)