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Day of marriage May 29, 1920

• The temperature on May 29, 1920 was between 10.6 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
  • May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
  • June 4 » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
  • August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
  • November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • November 21 » Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".

Day of death July 1, 1983

• The temperature on July 1, 1983 was between 9.3 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
  • July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
  • October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
  • October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
  • November 7 » United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
  • December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Kurt Student, German general and pilot (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (b. 1921)
• 1983 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Michael Landon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)