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Day of marriage May 4, 1922

• The temperature on May 4, 1922 was between 8.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (70%). 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 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 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • March 10 » Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
  • April 7 » The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
  • April 15 » U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
  • June 28 » The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
  • September 27 » King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
  • November 26 » Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

Day of death September 12, 1978

• The temperature on September 12, 1978 was between 9.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
  • March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
  • August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
  • September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
  • November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
  • November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1977 » Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
• 1978 » William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, essayist and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)