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Day of marriage April 4, 1923

• The temperature on April 4, 1923 was between 1.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
  • April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
  • July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
  • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
  • September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
  • September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.

Day of death August 4, 1996

• The temperature on August 4, 1996 was between 9.3 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 8 » An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
  • February 9 » Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
  • May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
  • May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
  • August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
  • November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
• 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)