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Day of marriage June 20, 1923

• The temperature on June 20, 1923 was between 6.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
  • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
  • July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
  • September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
  • October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.
  • December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

Day of death February 25, 1978

• The temperature on February 25, 1978 was between 6.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • March 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
  • April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  • May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
  • June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
  • June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1980 » Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (b. 1911)