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Day of marriage May 10, 1924

• The temperature on May 10, 1924 was between 1.0 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • 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.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Day of death December 30, 1998

• The temperature on December 30, 1998 was between 4.5 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
  • January 22 » Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavor launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
  • March 2 » Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
  • April 6 » Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
  • October 31 » Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
  • November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905)
• 1999 » Des Renford, Australian swimmer (b. 1927)
• 1999 » Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (b. 1880)