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Day of marriage May 17, 1906

• The temperature on May 17, 1906 was between 6.1 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
  • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
  • 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 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
  • December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Day of death March 29, 1911

• The temperature on March 29, 1911 was between 4.9 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (57%). 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 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1905 » William Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist and banker (b. 1843)
• 1906 » Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
• 1911 » Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (b. 1837)
• 1912 » Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and explorer (b. 1872)
• 1912 » Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish lieutenant and explorer (b. 1883)
• 1912 » Robert Falcon Scott, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1868)