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Day of marriage May 8, 1926

• The temperature on May 8, 1926 was between 0.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
  • December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

Day of death April 6, 1976

• The temperature on April 6, 1976 was between 1.7 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
  • June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
  • August 18 » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
  • September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
  • September 19 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
  • December 25 » EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)