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Day of marriage November 22, 1906

• The temperature on November 22, 1906 was between 6.6 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
  • October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Day of death December 3, 1917

• The temperature on December 3, 1917 was between -1.1 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
  • January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
  • December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821)
• 1912 » Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Harold Garnett, English-French cricketer (b. 1879)
• 1919 » Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (b. 1841)
• 1928 » Ezra Meeker, American farmer and politician (b. 1830)