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Day of marriage May 28, 1898

• The temperature on May 28, 1898 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
  • June 12 » Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
  • July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
  • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
  • November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
  • December 3 » The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.

Day of death August 15, 1939

• The temperature on August 15, 1939 was between 7.9 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
  • March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
  • June 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
  • August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
  • August 27 » First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
  • September 28 » World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1936 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887)