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Day of marriage December 3, 1924

• The temperature on December 3, 1924 was between 6.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
  • June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

Day of death November 20, 1964

• The temperature on November 20, 1964 was between 9.0 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
  • January 11 » Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
  • January 16 » Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
  • January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
  • June 12 » Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
  • July 19 » Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (b. 1933)
• 1960 » Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (b. 1881)
• 1972 » Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1924)