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Day of marriage November 16, 1921

• The temperature on November 16, 1921 was between -2.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
  • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

Day of death October 23, 1978

• The temperature on October 23, 1978 was between 7.2 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
  • April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  • April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  • June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
  • August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
  • September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 1984 » Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1988 » Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)