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Day of marriage May 16, 1925

• The temperature on May 16, 1925 was between 12.6 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (78%). 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • April 18 » The International Amateur Radio Union is formed in Paris.
  • May 1 » The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134million members.
  • July 10 » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
  • October 30 » John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
  • November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

Day of death August 23, 1997

• The temperature on August 23, 1997 was between 19.0 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
  • September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2​⁄₂ billion watched around the world on television.
  • September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
  • September 26 » A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
  • December 1 » In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)
• 1996 » Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (b. 1904)
• 1997 » Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
• 1997 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)