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Day of marriage February 4, 1927

• The temperature on February 4, 1927 was between 2.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

Day of death March 20, 1990

• The temperature on March 20, 1990 was between 6.1 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • June 13 » First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
  • July 16 » The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
  • July 26 » The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
  • August 28 » An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
  • December 23 » History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)