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Day of marriage August 7, 1920

• The temperature on August 7, 1920 was between 8.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • April 15 » Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
  • July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
  • November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France
  • December 22 » The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.

Day of death August 24, 1933

• The temperature on August 24, 1933 was between 8.9 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
  • March 6 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
  • March 13 » Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after the three-day national "bank holiday" mandated by the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act.
  • April 7 » Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
  • May 15 » All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of Germany were officially merged in a covert manner to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe.
  • August 14 » Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; it is not fully extinguished until September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970km).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)