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Day of marriage November 19, 1927

• The temperature on November 19, 1927 was between -1.0 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

Day of death February 15, 1995

• The temperature on February 15, 1995 was between 7.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 15.5 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • February 26 » The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
  • October 26 » Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
  • November 10 » In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
  • December 7 » The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
  • December 20 » NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
• 1992 » William Schuman, American composer and academic (b. 1910)
• 1996 » McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)