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Day of marriage September 22, 1917

• The temperature on September 22, 1917 was between 8.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
  • March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
  • March 31 » According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
  • June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
  • October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

Day of death December 16, 1942

• The temperature on December 16, 1942 was between 3.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
  • April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
  • July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
  • August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
  • November 1 » World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
  • November 11 » World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » George Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892)
• 1944 » Betsie ten Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
• 1945 » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat (b. 1866)