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Day of marriage August 15, 1929

• The temperature on August 15, 1929 was between 9.2 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • February 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
  • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
  • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death October 22, 1998

• The temperature on October 22, 1998 was between 14.2 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
  • May 4 » A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
  • May 12 » Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
  • July 12 » The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
  • December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
  • December 11 » Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (b. 1922)
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• 1997 » Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Eric Ambler, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2002 » Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)