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Day of marriage October 22, 1973

• The temperature on October 22, 1973 was between 0.5 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
  • January 8 » Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
  • May 31 » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
  • June 28 » Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
  • July 11 » Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.
  • November 17 » Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

Day of death January 11, 1991

• The temperature on January 11, 1991 was between 4.4 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
  • January 16 » Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
  • May 18 » Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
  • May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
  • August 21 » Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
  • September 5 » The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Ray Moore, English radio host (b. 1942)
• 1990 » Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 » Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)