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Day of marriage May 12, 1911

• The temperature on May 12, 1911 was between 12.5 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
  • August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Day of death February 26, 1962

• The temperature on February 26, 1962 was between -5.4 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -3 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
  • February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
  • May 31 » The West Indies Federation dissolves.
  • October 12 » The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
  • December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)
• 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)