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Day of marriage September 3, 1921

• The temperature on September 3, 1921 was between 7.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
  • October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.

Day of death January 3, 1939

• The temperature on January 3, 1939 was between 0.8 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
  • May 17 » The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
  • May 23 » The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
  • November 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
  • December 13 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMSExeter, HMSAjax and HMSAchilles.
  • December 24 » World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1896)
• 1933 » Wilhelm Cuno, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1943 » Walter James, Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and explorer (b. 1879)