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Day of marriage December 30, 1924

• The temperature on December 30, 1924 was between 2.1 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
  • 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.

Day of death December 18, 1992

• The temperature on December 18, 1992 was between 3.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
  • February 29 » First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
  • July 7 » The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
  • September 2 » The 7.7 M_w  Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a M_s–M_w disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2ft).
  • September 17 » An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.
  • November 11 » The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
• 1991 » George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1992 » Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)