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Day of marriage May 15, 1924

• The temperature on May 15, 1924 was between 12.2 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
  • June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.

Day of death October 10, 1979

• The temperature on October 10, 1979 was between 13.2 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
  • June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
  • July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
  • October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
  • November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
  • November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Angelo Muscat, Maltese-English actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 » Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1978 » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (b. 1931)
• 1979 » Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1886)