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Day of marriage October 22, 1921

• The temperature on October 22, 1921 was between 3.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
  • September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
  • October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

Day of death September 23, 1973

• The temperature on September 23, 1973 was between 6.1 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
  • May 25 » In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
  • July 12 » A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
  • October 10 » U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
  • November 24 » A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
  • December 6 » The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
• 1971 » James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (b. 1950)
• 1978 » Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)