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Day of marriage May 12, 1927

• The temperature on May 12, 1927 was between 1.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

Day of death January 12, 1961

• The temperature on January 12, 1961 was between -4.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
  • February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
  • March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
  • April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
  • May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
  • July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Charles Hatfield, American meteorologist (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (b. 1899)
• 1962 » Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)
• 1965 » Lorraine Hansberry, American author, playwright, and director (b. 1936)
• 1967 » Burhan Asaf Belge, Turkish diplomat (b. 1887)
• 1971 » John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (b. 1885)