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Day of marriage December 20, 1929

• The temperature on December 20, 1929 was between -6.5 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
  • May 1 » The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
  • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
  • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
  • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.

Day of death October 5, 1991

• The temperature on October 5, 1991 was between 5.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
  • May 5 » A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
  • August 6 » Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
  • August 16 » Indian Airlines Flight 257, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.
  • August 31 » Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
  • November 28 » South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
• 1986 » James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
• 1986 » Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver and accountant (b. 1947)
• 1992 » Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1996 » Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)