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Day of marriage April 9, 1919

• The temperature on April 9, 1919 was between 2.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • April 13 » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
  • May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
  • June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
  • June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
  • October 3 » Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.

Day of death September 20, 1976

• The temperature on September 20, 1976 was between 8.8 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • April 11 » The Apple I is created.
  • April 13 » The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
  • September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
  • September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
  • October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.

Day of burial September 24, 1976

• The temperature on September 24, 1976 was between 12.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
  • April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
  • April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
  • June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
  • October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
  • October 22 » Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1971 » James Westerfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1975 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)