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Day of marriage June 5, 1923

• The temperature on June 5, 1923 was between 5.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
  • April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
  • July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
  • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

Day of death May 24, 1957

• The temperature on May 24, 1957 was between 8.4 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
  • February 22 » Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
  • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
  • August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)