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Day of marriage January 23, 1928

• The temperature on January 23, 1928 was between 2.9 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Day of death June 17, 1963

• The temperature on June 17, 1963 was between 12.8 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast 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 Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
  • February 8 » Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • March 5 » American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
  • August 18 » Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
  • August 21 » Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
  • October 9 » In Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Dorothy Richardson, English journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1957 » J. R. Williams, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888)
• 1961 » Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1963 » Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
• 1968 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)