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Day of marriage September 23, 1920

• The temperature on September 23, 1920 was between 6.1 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
  • May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
  • May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
  • July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
  • August 16 » The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.

Day of death September 8, 1988

• The temperature on September 8, 1988 was between 10.9 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
  • July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
  • July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
  • September 13 » Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
  • October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
  • November 16 » The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1990 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)