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Day of marriage May 28, 1924

• The temperature on May 28, 1924 was between 6.6 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

Day of death May 16, 1994

• The temperature on May 16, 1994 was between 7.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • March 23 » A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
  • October 15 » The Clinton administration returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
  • October 21 » In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
  • October 21 » North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
  • October 31 » American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board.
  • December 26 » Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
• 1997 » Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)