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Day of marriage April 22, 1926

• The temperature on April 22, 1926 was between 2.5 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death April 21, 1963

• The temperature on April 21, 1963 was between 10.3 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
  • May 25 » The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • June 3 » Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
  • June 17 » A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
  • August 8 » The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
  • November 23 » The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)
• 1956 » Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1971 » François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910)