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Day of marriage December 1, 1920

• The temperature on December 1, 1920 was between 0.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
  • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
  • May 7 » Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
  • August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio

Day of death August 23, 1951

• The temperature on August 23, 1951 was between 9.2 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
  • January 13 » First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
  • January 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
  • March 7 » Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran.
  • May 3 » The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
  • May 14 » Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
  • November 2 » Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)