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Christening day April 9, 1905

• The temperature on April 9, 1905 was between -0.7 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • 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.
  • October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
  • October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Day of marriage May 27, 1937

• The temperature on May 27, 1937 was between 9.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
  • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

Day of death October 1, 1976

• The temperature on October 1, 1976 was between 13.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • June 25 » Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
  • July 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
  • July 18 » Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
  • September 21 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
  • October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Raúl Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist and paleontologist (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1975 » Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
• 1984 » Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
• 1985 » Ninian Sanderson, Scottish race car driver (b. 1925)