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Day of marriage December 1, 1921

• The temperature on December 1, 1921 was between -4.9 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
  • March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

Day of death November 11, 1968

• The temperature on November 11, 1968 was between 0.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
  • March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
  • April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
  • October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
  • October 14 » The 6.5 M_w  Meckering earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
  • December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1962 » Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
• 1965 » Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (b. 1900)
• 1972 » Berry Oakley, American bass player (b. 1948)
• 1973 » Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Richard von Frankenberg, German race car driver and journalist (b. 1922)
• 1974 » Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (b. 1894)