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Day of marriage May 18, 1912

• The temperature on May 18, 1912 was between 4.0 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
  • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
  • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
  • December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

Day of death December 29, 1982

• The temperature on December 29, 1982 was between -2.0 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1982: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • June 21 » John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
  • June 24 » British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
  • July 23 » Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
  • August 27 » Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1​⁄₂ million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
  • September 19 » Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons:-) and:-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
  • October 1 » Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 » Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1986 » Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)