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Christening day September 4, 1881

• The temperature on September 4, 1881 was about 13.5 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Day of marriage June 3, 1905

• The temperature on June 3, 1905 was between 13.8 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
  • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
  • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Day of death March 16, 1967

• The temperature on March 16, 1967 was between 2.4 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • July 1 » Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
  • October 27 » Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
  • November 9 » Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
  • November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
  • December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
  • December 19 » Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874)
• 1965 » Alice Herz, German activist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1968 » Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)