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Day of marriage May 16, 1907

• The temperature on May 16, 1907 was between 6.1 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
  • December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

Day of death February 26, 1969

• The temperature on February 26, 1969 was between -1.6 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
  • March 19 » The 385-metre-tall (1,263ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
  • April 22 » The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
  • June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
  • July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
  • August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)