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Day of marriage May 12, 1904

• The temperature on May 12, 1904 was between -1.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Day of death June 30, 1957

• The temperature on June 30, 1957 was between 18.8 °C and 34.2 °C and averaged 26.5 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • 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 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
  • September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
  • October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
  • November 3 » Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
  • December 6 » Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and civil servant (b. 1874)
• 1953 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
• 1956 » Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
• 1959 » José Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher and politician (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Lee de Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)