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Day of marriage May 11, 1923

• The temperature on May 11, 1923 was between 2.1 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
  • February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
  • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

Day of death January 9, 1967

• The temperature on January 9, 1967 was between -12.1 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
  • June 7 » Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
  • August 13 » Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
  • September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
  • November 21 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
  • December 4 » Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Emily Greene Balch, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1964 » Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player and scout (b. 1876)
• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)