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Day of marriage March 26, 1921

• The temperature on March 26, 1921 was between 1.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
  • October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Day of death January 12, 1969

• The average temperature on January 12, 1969 was 3.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
  • May 26 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
  • June 22 » The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
  • June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
  • July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
  • August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • August 15 » The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)
• 1965 » Lorraine Hansberry, American author, playwright, and director (b. 1936)
• 1967 » Burhan Asaf Belge, Turkish diplomat (b. 1887)
• 1971 » John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Roy Franklin Nichols, American historian and academic (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)