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Day of marriage August 21, 1920

• The temperature on August 21, 1920 was between 8.9 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
  • July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
  • November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • November 2 » In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
  • November 16 » Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
  • December 16 » The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5M_w , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.

Day of death December 1, 1994

• The temperature on December 1, 1994 was between 1.0 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
  • October 12 » The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
  • October 21 » In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
  • October 29 » Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
  • November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
  • November 13 » In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• 1995 » Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
• 1996 » Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)