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Day of marriage December 31, 1924

• The temperature on December 31, 1924 was between 2.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Day of death March 15, 1945

• The temperature on March 15, 1945 was between 0.3 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 31 » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
  • February 23 » World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
  • May 8 » World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Reims comes into effect.
  • August 25 » Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
  • October 12 » World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
  • November 27 » CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1939 » Luis Barceló, Spanish colonel (b. 1896)
• 1941 » Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)