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Day of marriage January 12, 1929

• The temperature on January 12, 1929 was between -12.5 °C and -3.7 °C and averaged -9.1 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
  • August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death May 17, 1983

• The temperature on May 17, 1983 was between 8.0 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
  • February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
  • March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
  • June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
  • July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
  • September 15 » Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.

Source: Wikipedia

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