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Day of marriage July 5, 1924

• The temperature on July 5, 1924 was between 11.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  • September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

Day of death January 22, 1997

• The temperature on January 22, 1997 was between 0.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
  • July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
  • August 7 » Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
  • August 29 » Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
  • November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
  • December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Graham Staines, Australian-Indian missionary and translator (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)