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Day of marriage May 15, 1928

• The temperature on May 15, 1928 was between 3.7 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • 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 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

Day of death September 8, 1983

• The temperature on September 8, 1983 was between 6.9 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
  • March 8 » Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
  • May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
  • July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
  • November 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
  • December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)