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Day of marriage May 28, 1931

• The temperature on May 28, 1931 was between 11.5 °C and 28.0 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
  • February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
  • May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

Day of death October 29, 1966

• The temperature on October 29, 1966 was between -1.7 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
  • January 31 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
  • March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
  • June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
  • July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
  • August 26 » The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Astrid Holm, Danish actress (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)