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Day of marriage October 20, 1906

• The temperature on October 20, 1906 was between 3.7 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • April 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
  • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  • June 30 » The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
  • September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
  • September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

Day of death November 3, 1953

• The temperature on November 3, 1953 was between 3.2 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
  • January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
  • January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
  • July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
  • August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
  • November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (b. 1861)
• 1954 » Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1956 » Jean Metzinger, French artist, (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian psychotherapist and author (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Paul Willis, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1962 » L. O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor and painter (b. 1895)