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Day of marriage July 22, 1926

• The temperature on July 22, 1926 was between 13.7 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
  • January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
  • April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
  • May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
  • June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

Day of death April 25, 1999

• The temperature on April 25, 1999 was between 6.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
  • March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
  • May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
  • July 16 » John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
  • September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
  • December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Wright Morris, American author and photographer (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Roger Troutman, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1951)
• 2000 » David Merrick, American director and producer (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Lucien Le Cam, French mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (b. 1956)