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Day of marriage May 12, 1927

• The temperature on May 12, 1927 was between 1.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). 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 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.
  • May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
  • May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
  • November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death November 11, 1979

• The temperature on November 11, 1979 was between 1.9 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
  • February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄₂-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
  • June 18 » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
  • November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
  • December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1976 » Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1950)
• 1979 » Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (b. 1901)
• 1984 » Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899)