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Day of marriage May 27, 1911

• The temperature on May 27, 1911 was between 9.6 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
  • May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
  • December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Day of death January 4, 1955

• The temperature on January 4, 1955 was between -2.9 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
  • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
  • July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
  • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
  • September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
  • October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)
• 1944 » Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)