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Day of marriage June 5, 1915

• The temperature on June 5, 1915 was between 7.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (59%). 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
  • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

Day of death January 31, 1992

• The temperature on January 31, 1992 was between -1.4 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • February 29 » First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
  • March 31 » The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
  • April 12 » The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
  • May 24 » The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.
  • September 16 » The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
  • December 14 » War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1989 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
• 1995 » George Abbott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 » John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)