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Day of marriage September 15, 1910

• The temperature on September 15, 1910 was between 11.0 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Day of death May 18, 1973

• The temperature on May 18, 1973 was between 8.3 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
  • May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
  • September 20 » Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
  • October 30 » The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
  • November 8 » The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
  • December 28 » The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by Pres. Richard Nixon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption: