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Day of marriage February 5, 1927

• The temperature on February 5, 1927 was between -0.2 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  • November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death February 8, 1977

• The temperature on February 8, 1977 was between 4.6 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1977: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Apple Computer is incorporated.
  • April 22 » Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
  • June 27 » France grants independence to Djibouti.
  • July 26 » The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
  • September 18 » Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
  • December 25 » Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1982 » John Hay Whitney, American financier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1904)