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Day of marriage June 24, 1911

• The temperature on June 24, 1911 was between 11.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • August 14 » United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
  • November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
  • December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

Day of death February 22, 1957

• The temperature on February 22, 1957 was between -2.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
  • May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
  • June 21 » Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
  • November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist (b. 1869)
• 1945 » Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Abul Kalam Azad, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education (b. 1888)
• 1960 » Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter and critic (b. 1905)
• 1961 » Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)