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Day of marriage May 17, 1911

• The temperature on May 17, 1911 was between 11.6 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
  • May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
  • December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

Day of death July 28, 1975

• The temperature on July 28, 1975 was between 12.7 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 4 » Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • May 28 » Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
  • June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
  • September 30 » The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
  • October 14 » An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
  • October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1972 » Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902)