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Day of marriage June 21, 1923

• The temperature on June 21, 1923 was between 6.9 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
  • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
  • June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • September 26 » The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.

Day of death May 23, 1972

• The temperature on May 23, 1972 was between 11.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
  • March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
  • April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
  • April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
  • August 14 » An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in-flight fire, killing 156.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (b. 1904)
• 1965 » David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Moms Mabley, American comedian and actor (b. 1894)
• 1979 » S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)
• 1981 » Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 1981 » Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (b. 1911)