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Day of marriage October 20, 1910

• The temperature on October 20, 1910 was between 6.8 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
  • July 4 » The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
  • July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
  • October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
  • December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Day of death March 8, 1947

• The temperature on March 8, 1947 was between -11.6 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
  • April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
  • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
  • June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
  • July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
  • November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)