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Day of marriage January 20, 1921

• The temperature on January 20, 1921 was between 1.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
  • October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.

Day of death July 4, 1941

• The temperature on July 4, 1941 was between 9.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • April 13 » A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
  • April 16 » World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
  • May 6 » At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
  • May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
  • September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
  • December 24 » World War II: Benghazi is conquered by the British Eighth Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1938 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)