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Day of marriage September 16, 1921

• The temperature on September 16, 1921 was between 6.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
  • July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
  • 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.
  • October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of death November 4, 1970

• The temperature on November 4, 1970 was between 8.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • March 28 » An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
  • April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
  • October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
  • October 12 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
  • November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
  • November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Horace Gould, English race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter and soldier (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Carlos Marighella, Brazilian author and activist (b. 1911)
• 1974 » Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (b. 1893)
• 1975 » Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (b. 1914)