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Day of marriage May 10, 1928

• The temperature on May 10, 1928 was between -1.0 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (66%). 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Day of death January 13, 1965

• The temperature on January 13, 1965 was between 4.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1965: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
  • February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
  • March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
  • August 9 » Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
  • August 19 » Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
  • November 2 » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
  • December 4 » Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (b. 1919)
• 1963 » Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and politician, President of Togo (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
• 1971 » Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)