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Day of marriage May 16, 1895

• The temperature on May 16, 1895 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
  • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
  • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
  • May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Day of death October 6, 1955

• The temperature on October 6, 1955 was between 9.2 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 27.7 mm of rain during 13.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
  • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
  • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
  • November 15 » The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
  • December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
  • December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)