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Day of marriage May 17, 1923

• The temperature on May 17, 1923 was between 3.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (34%). 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 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
  • March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
  • September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

Day of death June 30, 1971

• The temperature on June 30, 1971 was between 8.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
  • July 12 » The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
  • July 30 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
  • October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
  • November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
• 1971 » Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1971 » Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1971 » Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
• 1971 » Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)