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Day of marriage November 28, 1924

• The temperature on November 28, 1924 was between 3.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
  • 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.

Day of death March 23, 1984

• The temperature on March 23, 1984 was between -4.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • January 22 » The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
  • March 6 » In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
  • June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
  • November 19 » San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
  • December 22 » "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b. 1940)
• 1985 » Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Moshe Feinstein, American Orthodox Rabbi and posek (b. 1895)
• 1987 » Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist (b. 1901)