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Day of marriage February 21, 1923

• The temperature on February 21, 1923 was between -5.2 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
  • June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
  • September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
  • November 9 » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

Day of death October 14, 1983

• The temperature on October 14, 1983 was between 8.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
  • June 5 » More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
  • July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
  • September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
  • October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
  • December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902)