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Day of marriage May 19, 1927

• The temperature on May 19, 1927 was between 2.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Day of death January 27, 1988

• The temperature on January 27, 1988 was between 1.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • January 28 » In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.
  • February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
  • March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
  • April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
  • July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
  • November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian, author, and playwright (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1993 » André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)