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Day of marriage March 21, 1929

• The temperature on March 21, 1929 was between 2.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
  • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
  • July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
  • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
  • November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
  • December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Day of death March 8, 2000

• The temperature on March 8, 2000 was between 9.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
  • July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • September 15 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
  • September 20 » The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
  • November 13 » Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Gershon Liebman, French rabbi (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Ray Nitschke, American football player and actor (b. 1936)
• 1999 » Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)