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Day of marriage August 21, 1924

• The temperature on August 21, 1924 was between 6.8 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • 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.
  • April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Day of death April 11, 1996

• The temperature on April 11, 1996 was between 2.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 11.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
  • April 3 » Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
  • July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
  • August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
  • October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
  • December 27 » Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Eve Merriam, American author and poet (b. 1916)
• 1992 » James Brown, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
• 1997 » Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (b. 1899)
• 1997 » Wang Xiaobo, contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (b. 1952)
• 1999 » William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (b. 1911)