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Day of marriage February 24, 1927

• The temperature on February 24, 1927 was between 1.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
  • December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.

Day of death May 18, 1986

• The temperature on May 18, 1986 was between 8.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
  • February 19 » Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
  • February 20 » The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
  • September 5 » Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
  • September 7 » Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.
  • November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)