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Day of marriage November 21, 1929

• The temperature on November 21, 1929 was between 0.6 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
  • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
  • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
  • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Day of death November 2, 1956

• The temperature on November 2, 1956 was between 5.0 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
  • March 9 » Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
  • April 2 » As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
  • October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
  • October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
  • October 31 » Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Revolutionary Headquarters is established in Hungary. Following Imre Nagy's announcement of October 30, banned non-Communist political parties are reformed, and the MDP is replaced by the MSZMP. József Mindszenty is released from prison. The Soviet Politburo makes the decision to crush the Revolution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)