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Day of marriage June 10, 1916

• The temperature on June 10, 1916 was between 5.0 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Day of death March 31, 1930

• The temperature on March 31, 1930 was between 3.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (44%). 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
  • March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
  • May 7 » The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
  • June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
  • August 7 » The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
  • August 16 » The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (b. 1855)
• 1927 » Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and political reformer (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1836)
• 1931 » Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (b. 1888)
• 1935 » Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman and diplomat, founded Prince Matchabelli perfume (b. 1885)
• 1939 » Ioannis Tsangaridis, Greek general (b. 1887)