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Day of marriage September 7, 1929

• The temperature on September 7, 1929 was between 6.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
  • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
  • September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
  • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
  • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

Day of death August 17, 1971

• The temperature on August 17, 1971 was between 4.6 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
  • May 20 » In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
  • June 13 » Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
  • July 30 » An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
  • November 12 » Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
  • November 21 » Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1973 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)