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Day of marriage May 19, 1921

• The temperature on May 19, 1921 was between 7.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
  • July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

Day of death May 31, 1967

• The temperature on May 31, 1967 was between 10.0 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. The almost completely overcast 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • May 17 » Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
  • June 2 » Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
  • October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
  • November 21 » Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
  • November 30 » The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
  • December 4 » Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1960 » Walther Funk, German economist, journalist, and politician, German Minister of Economics (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
• 1970 » Terry Sawchuk, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 1976 » Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)