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Day of marriage June 18, 1931

• The temperature on June 18, 1931 was between 9.2 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
  • April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
  • May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death February 17, 1983

• The temperature on February 17, 1983 was between -3.0 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 6 » The first United States Football League games are played.
  • March 8 » Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
  • April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
  • May 1 » The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
  • July 21 » The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−128.6°F).
  • July 24 » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Lee Strasberg, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
• 1988 » John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)