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Day of marriage August 26, 1921

• The temperature on August 26, 1921 was between 9.6 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
  • August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.

Day of death October 12, 1983

• The temperature on October 12, 1983 was between 7.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
  • April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
  • April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
  • September 19 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
  • September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
  • October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1984 » Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1987 » Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
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