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Day of marriage October 5, 1916

• The temperature on October 5, 1916 was between 13.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

Day of death July 21, 1958

• The temperature on July 21, 1958 was between 14.2 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
  • May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
  • July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
  • July 29 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
  • October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
  • December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1952 » Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. (b. 1856)
• 1966 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Vienna Circle member (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1967 » Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1907)