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Day of marriage May 20, 1897

• The temperature on May 20, 1897 was about 18.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
  • July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
  • August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
  • September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
  • December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
  • December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

Day of death September 5, 1933

• The temperature on September 5, 1933 was between 8.4 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
  • March 9 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
  • April 3 » First flight over Mount Everest, by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
  • April 24 » Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
  • August 16 » Christie Pits riot takes place in Toronto, Ontario.
  • October 17 » Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1849)
• 1931 » John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
• 1932 » Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1932 » Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1934 » Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (b. 1878)
• 1936 » Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (b. 1859)