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Day of marriage December 14, 1933

• The temperature on December 14, 1933 was between -13.4 °C and -5.8 °C and averaged -9.6 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
  • March 6 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
  • March 22 » Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
  • April 1 » English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
  • August 25 » The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
  • November 16 » The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.

Day of death September 22, 1991

• The temperature on September 22, 1991 was between 12.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 23 » The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • June 12 » Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
  • July 1 » Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
  • August 6 » Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
  • October 27 » Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
  • October 30 » The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
• 1992 » Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
• 1993 » Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1994 » Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914)