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Day of marriage May 11, 1931

• The temperature on May 11, 1931 was between 7.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
  • October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death June 11, 1955

• The temperature on June 11, 1955 was between 2.9 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
  • April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
  • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
  • September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
  • October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1941 » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
• 1955 » Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)