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Day of marriage November 29, 1919

• The temperature on November 29, 1919 was between -0.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
  • January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • April 13 » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
  • November 7 » The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.
  • November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

Day of death January 21, 1966

• The temperature on January 21, 1966 was between -1.7 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • February 14 » Australian currency is decimalized.
  • March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
  • May 16 » The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
  • August 29 » The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
  • November 13 » In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, Indian author, poet, and academic (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Gwynne Evans, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1968 » Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (b. 1914)