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Day of marriage May 10, 1907

• The temperature on May 10, 1907 was between 9.8 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (71%). 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 6 » Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • August 3 » Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
  • October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • December 8 » King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

Day of death December 26, 1962

• The temperature on December 26, 1962 was between -10.9 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
  • February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
  • September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
  • October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
  • October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1966 » Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Otto Gille, German general (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)