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Day of marriage February 22, 1923

• The temperature on February 22, 1923 was between -0.3 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
  • April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
  • August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
  • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

Day of death May 25, 1962

• The temperature on May 25, 1962 was between 6.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 10.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 1962: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
  • February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
  • March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11​⁄₂ day constitutional crisis.
  • September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
  • October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (b. 1901)
• 1951 » Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1954 » Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and journalist (b. 1913)
• 1957 » Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 » Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)