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Day of marriage August 21, 1920

• The temperature on August 21, 1920 was between 8.9 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
  • July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
  • August 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
  • September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
  • December 16 » The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5M_w , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
  • December 24 » Gabriele D'Annunzio surrendered the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume to Italian armed forces.

Day of death September 27, 1942

• The temperature on September 27, 1942 was between 5.4 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
  • March 14 » Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
  • March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
  • June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
  • July 1 » World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
  • November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Alan Gray, English composer and organist (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)