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Day of marriage June 5, 1926

• The temperature on June 5, 1926 was between 8.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
  • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.

Day of death January 3, 1961

• The temperature on January 3, 1961 was between 4.1 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
  • January 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
  • April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
  • May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
  • July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
  • August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1958 » Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Eric P. Kelly, American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Milton Avery, American painter (b. 1885)