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Day of marriage March 21, 1907

• The temperature on March 21, 1907 was between 2.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
  • November 7 » Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.

Day of death August 27, 1965

• The temperature on August 27, 1965 was between 7.0 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Malcolm X visits Smethwick in Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.
  • February 17 » Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
  • March 2 » The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
  • March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
  • August 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
  • November 16 » Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)