Lambert Freriks » Wilhelmina Lamberdina Holdijk (1899-1974)

Day of marriage April 26, 1923

• The temperature on April 26, 1923 was between 7.9 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
  • September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
  • September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
  • October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
  • October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.

Day of death January 13, 1974

• The temperature on January 13, 1974 was between 5.4 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • January 18 » A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
  • February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
  • June 26 » The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
  • August 7 » Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417m) in the air.
  • September 25 » Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
  • November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
• 1974 » Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1977 » Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)