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Day of marriage September 11, 1902

• The temperature on September 11, 1902 was between 10.0 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. 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 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Day of death January 4, 1973

• The temperature on January 4, 1973 was between -0.9 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • May 3 » The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
  • June 24 » The UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, is attacked by an arsonist during a church service, and 32 people die from smoke inhalation or fire.
  • June 28 » Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
  • July 21 » In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
  • September 11 » JAT Airways Flight 769 crashes into the Maganik mountain range while on approach to Titograd Airport, killing 35 passengers and six crew.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Donald Campbell, English racing driver and world speed record holder (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Paul Chambers, American bassist and composer (b. 1935)
• 1975 » Carlo Levi, Italian painter, author, and activist (b. 1902)