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Day of marriage August 29, 1929

• The temperature on August 29, 1929 was between 10.6 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (82%). 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
  • February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
  • February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
  • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
  • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
  • August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

Day of death February 1, 1937

• The temperature on February 1, 1937 was between 2.7 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
  • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
  • May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
  • July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1928 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
• 1940 » Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)