TEST BOUTREUX » Marguerite Marie Lucienne DEMANDES (1902-1979)

Day of marriage November 10, 1924

• The temperature on November 10, 1924 was between -0.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
  • December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

Day of death September 17, 1979

• The temperature on September 17, 1979 was between 8.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
  • August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
  • September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
  • October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
  • November 1 » In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
  • November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Nicola Moscona, Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)
• 1983 » Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Richard Basehart, American actor and director (b. 1914)