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Day of marriage January 10, 1929

• The temperature on January 10, 1929 was between -5.1 °C and -2.9 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
  • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
  • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
  • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
  • December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
  • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

Day of death April 30, 1976

• The temperature on April 30, 1976 was between 0.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
  • August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
  • September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
  • September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
  • November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (b. 1934)
• 1970 » Jacques Presser, Dutch historian, writer and poet (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (b. 1934)
• 1973 » Václav Renč, Czech poet and playwright (b. 1911)
• 1974 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist and politician, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1898)