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Day of marriage October 14, 1909

• The temperature on October 14, 1909 was between 8.2 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
  • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
  • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
  • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Day of death October 30, 1979

• The temperature on October 30, 1979 was between 1.9 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
  • February 20 » An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H₂S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
  • March 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
  • October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
  • November 20 » Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
  • December 23 » Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)
• 1982 » Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904)
• 1988 » T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1911)