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Day of marriage May 15, 1919

• The temperature on May 15, 1919 was between 10.0 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
  • September 18 » Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
  • October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

Day of death March 20, 1991

• The temperature on March 20, 1991 was between 8.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
  • March 1 » Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
  • July 31 » The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
  • August 20 » Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
  • September 6 » The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1, 1991.
  • November 12 » Santa Cruz massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
• 1997 » V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)