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Day of marriage June 26, 1915

• The temperature on June 26, 1915 was between 10.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (36%). 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.

Day of death July 29, 1983

• The temperature on July 29, 1983 was between 14.4 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
  • March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
  • June 4 » Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
  • July 1 » A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
  • July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
  • September 6 » The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (b. 1889)
• 1983 » David Niven, English military officer and actor (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Fred Waring, American television host and bandleader (b. 1900)