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Day of marriage March 19, 1927

• The temperature on March 19, 1927 was between 2.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
  • March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.

Day of death January 1, 2002

• The temperature on January 1, 2002 was between -1.4 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
  • April 12 » A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
  • May 9 » The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
  • May 26 » The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
  • July 28 » Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
  • December 13 » European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Helen Wills, American tennis player and coach (b. 1905)
• 2000 » Betty Archdale, English-Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1907)
• 2001 » Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (b. 1944)
• 2003 » Joe Foss, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Shirley Chisholm, American educator and politician (b. 1924)