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Day of marriage June 5, 1909

• The temperature on June 5, 1909 was between 6.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
  • April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
  • August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
  • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Day of death January 31, 1933

• The temperature on January 31, 1933 was between 0.4 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • January 28 » The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
  • February 3 » Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
  • March 4 » The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
  • March 9 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
  • September 8 » Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)