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Day of marriage June 4, 1914

• The temperature on June 4, 1914 was between 2.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
  • September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
  • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
  • November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

Day of death April 19, 1960

• The temperature on April 19, 1960 was between 6.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
  • May 24 » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • July 8 » Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
  • November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
  • December 16 » A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)