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Day of marriage September 11, 1897

• The temperature on September 11, 1897 was about 13.4 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
  • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
  • August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
  • September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
  • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

Day of death January 4, 1937

• The temperature on January 4, 1937 was between 6.4 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
  • July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
  • August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
  • August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
  • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1931 » Mohammad Ali Jouhar, Indian journalist, activist, and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Flora Finch, English-American actress and producer (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)