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Day of marriage August 18, 1917

• The temperature on August 18, 1917 was between 12.1 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
  • March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
  • March 31 » According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
  • May 18 » World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
  • July 20 » World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
  • December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.

Day of death July 21, 1979

• The temperature on July 21, 1979 was between 9.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
  • February 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
  • March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
  • October 1 » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
  • October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
  • November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (b. 1945)
• 1970 » Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1972 » Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1928)
• 1972 » Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Lee Miller, American model and photographer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913)