Database Langton / Lengton / Lington - Heil - Rahder » Wilhelmina Carolina Lengton (1903-1991)

Day of marriage October 10, 1928

• The temperature on October 10, 1928 was between 5.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Day of death August 6, 1991

• The temperature on August 6, 1991 was between 15.4 °C and 30.5 °C and averaged 22.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • February 7 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
  • February 18 » The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
  • March 1 » Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
  • April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
  • May 18 » Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
  • August 25 » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (b. 1923)
• 1991 » Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
• 1991 » Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)