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Day of marriage August 22, 1931

• The temperature on August 22, 1931 was between 8.6 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
  • May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
  • May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.

Day of death September 28, 1996

• The temperature on September 28, 1996 was between 9.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
  • August 6 » The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.
  • August 14 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
  • August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
  • October 2 » The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
  • November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915)
• 1994 » José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946)
• 1994 » K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (b. 1917)
• 1994 » Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (b. 1953)