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Day of marriage May 18, 1931

• The temperature on May 18, 1931 was between 9.6 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
  • March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
  • May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
  • 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.
  • November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
  • 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 October 8, 1978

• The temperature on October 8, 1978 was between 5.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
  • March 16 » A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.
  • June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
  • July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
  • September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
  • December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)
• 1982 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)