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Day of marriage June 26, 1916

• The temperature on June 26, 1916 was between 11.2 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
  • November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Day of death October 27, 1961

• The temperature on October 27, 1961 was between 10.0 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
  • January 24 » Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
  • March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
  • March 24 » Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
  • September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  • October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1949 » Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1953 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1957 » James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
• 1962 » Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)