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Day of marriage July 29, 1920

• The temperature on July 29, 1920 was between 9.2 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
  • January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
  • February 9 » Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
  • June 4 » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
  • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
  • September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.

Day of death August 7, 1966

• The temperature on August 7, 1966 was between 12.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
  • March 19 » 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
  • June 13 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
  • July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
  • October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
  • November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
• 1968 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)
• 1969 » Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)