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Day of marriage October 29, 1921

• The temperature on October 29, 1921 was between 9.8 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • 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.
  • October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of death March 21, 1976

• The temperature on March 21, 1976 was between -2.8 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
  • June 25 » Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • July 2 » End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
  • July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
  • November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Manolis Chiotis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1920)
• 1975 » Joe Medwick, American baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, President of Ireland (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1888)
• 1985 » Michael Redgrave, English actor, director, and manager (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Walter L. Gordon, Canadian accountant, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1906)