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Day of marriage December 9, 1921

• The temperature on December 9, 1921 was between 0.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
  • July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
  • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
  • November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.

Day of death August 2, 1978

• The temperature on August 2, 1978 was between 12.8 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
  • February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
  • April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
  • June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
  • July 25 » Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
  • November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1976 » László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Antony Noghès, French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1981 » Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (b. 1900)