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Day of marriage May 7, 1919

• The temperature on May 7, 1919 was between 4.1 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • June 4 » Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
  • July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
  • September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
  • November 7 » The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.

Day of death March 9, 1984

• The temperature on March 9, 1984 was between -2.0 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • February 7 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
  • February 10 » Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
  • October 11 » Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
  • October 31 » Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.
  • December 1 » NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
  • December 10 » United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)