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Day of marriage May 16, 1912

• The temperature on May 16, 1912 was between 5.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
  • January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
  • February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
  • April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
  • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Day of death March 4, 1939

• The temperature on March 4, 1939 was between 4.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
  • March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
  • April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
  • September 1 » General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
  • September 10 » World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
  • December 2 » New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » George Foster Peabody, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1944 » Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)