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Day of marriage May 23, 1931

• The temperature on May 23, 1931 was between 4.8 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • 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.
  • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.

Day of death July 27, 1984

• The temperature on July 27, 1984 was between 12.7 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
  • April 4 » President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
  • June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
  • November 27 » Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian king (b. 1919)
• 1981 » Elizabeth Rona, Hungarian American nuclear chemist (b. 1890)
• 1981 » William Wyler, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1984 » James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
• 1987 » Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1903)