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Day of marriage May 6, 1916

• The temperature on May 6, 1916 was between 10.5 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
  • January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
  • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
  • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

Day of death January 19, 1961

• The temperature on January 19, 1961 was between -5.7 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
  • March 24 » Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
  • May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
  • May 30 » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
  • October 31 » In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
• 1957 » József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1963 » Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
• 1968 » Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1879)