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Day of marriage May 21, 1931

• The temperature on May 21, 1931 was between 7.6 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
  • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
  • September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death June 19, 1995

• The temperature on June 19, 1995 was between 9.7 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
  • March 20 » The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
  • March 31 » TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
  • May 13 » Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
  • July 23 » Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
  • October 26 » An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, 20 of whom died.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 » George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)