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Day of marriage May 22, 1902

• The temperature on May 22, 1902 was between 4.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
  • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

Day of death March 28, 1951

• The temperature on March 28, 1951 was between -0.2 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
  • February 7 » Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
  • February 13 » Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
  • April 11 » The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
  • September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
  • December 17 » The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889)
• 1953 » Jim Thorpe, American football player and coach (b. 1887)
• 1958 » W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1873)