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Day of marriage May 1, 1902

• The temperature on May 1, 1902 was between 3.9 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (48%). 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.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • 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.
  • March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
  • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

Day of death September 28, 1942

• The temperature on September 28, 1942 was between 8.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
  • February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
  • April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
  • May 6 » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
  • August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
  • October 1 » World War II: USSGrouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)
• 1943 » Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (b. 1930)
• 1943 » Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1949 » Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881)
• 1953 » Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (b. 1889)