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Day of marriage May 10, 1901

• The temperature on May 10, 1901 was between 4.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). 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 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
  • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
  • August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  • September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
  • October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
  • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

Day of death July 27, 1953

• The temperature on July 27, 1953 was between 13.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
  • April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
  • July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
  • August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
  • October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
  • December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1946 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1948 » Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1948 » Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1898)
• 1951 » Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1891)
• 1958 » Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (b. 1893)