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Day of marriage December 8, 1928

• The temperature on December 8, 1928 was between -2.0 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). 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 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.

Day of death August 25, 1985

• The temperature on August 25, 1985 was between 10.9 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 10 » Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
  • May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
  • June 17 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
  • August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
  • August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
  • September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Nassos Kedrakas, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1915)
• 1982 » Anna German, Polish singer (b. 1936)
• 1984 » Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1984 » Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (b. 1921)
• 1984 » Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1899)
• 1988 » Art Rooney, American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (b. 1901)