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Day of marriage January 18, 1913

• The temperature on January 18, 1913 was between 1.0 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• 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 1913: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
  • March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
  • May 3 » Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
  • June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • August 13 » First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

Day of death May 31, 1963

• The temperature on May 31, 1963 was between 13.4 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 20.4 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • March 5 » American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
  • April 24 » Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • June 24 » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
  • September 15 » Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
  • November 1 » The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
  • November 29 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Leopold Staff, Polish poet and academic (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Stefanos Sarafis, Greek general and politician (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Walther Funk, German economist, journalist, and politician, German Minister of Economics (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)