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Day of marriage May 14, 1927

• The temperature on May 14, 1927 was between 2.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Day of death August 7, 1962

• The temperature on August 7, 1962 was between 11.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
  • July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
  • October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
  • October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
• 1968 » Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)