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Day of marriage May 14, 1925

• The temperature on May 14, 1925 was between 7.9 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • April 16 » During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
  • July 21 » Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150mph (241km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33mph (242km/h).
  • August 5 » Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
  • September 3 » USSShenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
  • October 30 » John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
  • November 28 » The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

Day of death May 28, 1983

• The temperature on May 28, 1983 was between 6.3 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
  • April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
  • April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
  • May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
  • July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
  • September 15 » Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
• 1982 » H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Eric Morecambe, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)