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Christening day April 2, 1911

• The temperature on April 2, 1911 was between 4.8 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
  • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
  • November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

Day of marriage May 17, 1902

• The temperature on May 17, 1902 was between 6.9 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). 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 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Day of death September 2, 1958

• The temperature on September 2, 1958 was between 14.8 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1958: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
  • March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
  • June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
  • August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
  • November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
  • December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
  • December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (b. 1900)
• 1962 » William Wilkerson, American publisher and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)