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Day of marriage April 16, 1921

• The temperature on April 16, 1921 was between -4.1 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
  • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
  • August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
  • September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
  • October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

Day of death June 9, 1987

• The temperature on June 9, 1987 was between 7.3 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • April 18 » The New York Islanders defeat the Washington Capitals 3–2 in Game 7 of their Patrick Division Semifinal series.
  • May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
  • May 28 » A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
  • June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
  • July 31 » A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Canada.
  • September 2 » In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
• 1989 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)