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Day of marriage August 23, 1916

• The temperature on August 23, 1916 was between 6.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
  • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
  • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
  • September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

Day of death February 23, 1973

• The temperature on February 23, 1973 was between -0.5 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • January 22 » In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
  • June 20 » Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
  • August 22 » The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
  • October 31 » Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
  • November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
  • December 9 » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• 1979 » W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)