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Day of marriage December 30, 1926

• The temperature on December 30, 1926 was between 3.1 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
  • August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
  • September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

Day of death October 4, 1965

• The temperature on October 4, 1965 was between 7.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
  • March 21 » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
  • July 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
  • November 8 » The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998.
  • November 24 » Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
  • December 7 » Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 » Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 » Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)