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Day of marriage January 17, 1929

• The temperature on January 17, 1929 was between -7.1 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • October 18 » The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
  • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death September 4, 1976

• The temperature on September 4, 1976 was between 8.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
  • July 2 » End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
  • September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
  • November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
  • November 24 » The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Charles Arnison, English airman (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1977 » E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)