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Day of marriage August 10, 1917

• The temperature on August 10, 1917 was between 12.3 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
  • January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  • October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.

Day of death June 7, 1961

• The temperature on June 7, 1961 was between 11.6 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• 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 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
  • February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
  • February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
  • March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
  • May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
  • September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (b. 1885)
• 1963 » ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
• 1967 » Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)