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Day of marriage May 24, 1924

• The temperature on May 24, 1924 was between 9.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
  • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

Day of death March 23, 1984

• The temperature on March 23, 1984 was between -4.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • February 24 » Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
  • April 19 » Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
  • May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
  • October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b. 1940)
• 1985 » Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Moshe Feinstein, American Orthodox Rabbi and posek (b. 1895)
• 1987 » Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist (b. 1901)