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Day of marriage January 4, 1929

• The temperature on January 4, 1929 was between -2.8 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
  • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Day of death March 15, 1985

• The temperature on March 15, 1985 was between -1.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • March 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
  • May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
  • July 13 » Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
  • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
  • October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Rebecca West, English author and critic (b. 1892)
• 1985 » Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and author (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (b. 1897)
• 1987 » Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1899)
• 1988 » Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926)