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Day of marriage September 5, 1900

• The temperature on September 5, 1900 was about 12.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
  • June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  • June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
  • August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
  • October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

Day of death April 21, 1973

• The temperature on April 21, 1973 was between 0.1 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
  • May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
  • July 29 » Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
  • September 11 » A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
  • November 1 » The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
  • December 15 » The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1974 » Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b.1947)