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Day of marriage May 17, 1924

• The temperature on May 17, 1924 was between 3.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
  • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  • August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

Day of death May 30, 1979

• The temperature on May 30, 1979 was between 12.8 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 35.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
  • June 9 » The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
  • August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
  • October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
  • November 1 » In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
  • November 21 » The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Max Carey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
• 1976 » Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (b. 1942)
• 1981 » Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 » Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)