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Day of marriage July 1, 1926

• The temperature on July 1, 1926 was between 9.5 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
  • August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
  • August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
  • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death March 18, 1990

• The temperature on March 18, 1990 was between 6.2 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
  • March 29 » The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
  • March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
  • April 9 » Thirteen thousand members of the Dene and Métis tribes sign a land claim agreement for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000sqmi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
  • November 2 » British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
  • November 12 » Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
• 1993 » Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)