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Day of marriage May 29, 1909

• The temperature on May 29, 1909 was between 8.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

Day of death October 30, 1980

• The temperature on October 30, 1980 was between 0.9 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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)
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • April 18 » The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
  • May 9 » In Florida, Liberian freighter MVSummit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150ft. into the water and die.
  • May 18 » Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3billion in damage.
  • July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
  • September 5 » The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
  • November 4 » Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of The United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)
• 1982 » Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904)
• 1988 » T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1911)