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Day of marriage August 14, 1920

• The temperature on August 14, 1920 was between 8.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 19 » The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
  • February 9 » Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
  • September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
  • October 14 » Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
  • November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • December 24 » Gabriele D'Annunzio surrendered the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume to Italian armed forces.

Day of death November 25, 1947

• The temperature on November 25, 1947 was between 2.6 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
  • April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
  • May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
  • September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (b. 1878)
• 1950 » Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Mao Anying, Chinese general (b. 1922)