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Day of marriage June 2, 1917

• The temperature on June 2, 1917 was between 10.8 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
  • June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Day of death April 24, 1978

• The temperature on April 24, 1978 was between 4.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
  • April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
  • April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
  • June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
  • August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)