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Day of marriage May 24, 1918

• The temperature on May 24, 1918 was between 7.5 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
  • October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
  • November 12 » Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.
  • November 21 » The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
  • December 14 » Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
  • December 16 » Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.

Day of death April 14, 1978

• The temperature on April 14, 1978 was between -0.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
  • June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
  • July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
  • August 19 » In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
  • November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
  • December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
• 1976 » José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1978 » F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)