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Day of marriage February 14, 1928

• The temperature on February 14, 1928 was between 4.4 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). 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 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Day of death June 20, 1980

• The temperature on June 20, 1980 was between 9.6 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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)
• 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, 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 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • March 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
  • March 21 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
  • March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
  • April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
  • July 24 » The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
  • October 29 » Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

Day of burial June 23, 1980

• The temperature on June 23, 1980 was between 9.3 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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)
• 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, 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 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
  • July 8 » The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park.
  • August 1 » Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
  • October 10 » The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
  • October 30 » El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
  • November 23 » The 6.9 M_w  Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)