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Day of marriage June 1, 1921

• The temperature on June 1, 1921 was between 9.6 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

Day of death September 15, 1942

• The temperature on September 15, 1942 was between 9.4 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 24 » World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
  • March 9 » World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
  • April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
  • May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
  • June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1883)