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Day of marriage May 14, 1921

• The temperature on May 14, 1921 was between 8.5 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

Day of death August 11, 1924

• The temperature on August 11, 1924 was between 9.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • 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.
  • October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
• 1936 » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
• 1937 » Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)
• 1939 » Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)