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Day of marriage May 1, 1920

• The temperature on May 1, 1920 was between 3.3 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
  • January 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
  • January 16 » Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
  • February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
  • March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
  • November 28 » Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.

Day of death December 31, 1993

• The temperature on December 31, 1993 was between 2.9 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
  • April 21 » The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
  • May 29 » The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
  • August 8 » The 7.8 M_w  Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people.
  • November 11 » A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • November 17 » In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » George Allen, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1990 » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1993 » Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972)
• 1993 » Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)
• 1994 » Woody Strode, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1914)