West-Europese adel » Rudolf Adolf Blaise Aloys Felix Joseph Hubert Maria "Rudolf" Vrijheer van Loë (1893-1973)

Day of marriage May 3, 1921

• The temperature on May 3, 1921 was between 0.8 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
  • July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
  • September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
  • October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Day of death December 19, 1973

• The temperature on December 19, 1973 was between -0.6 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.
  • April 1 » Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
  • April 19 » The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
  • June 3 » A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
  • September 11 » A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
  • December 24 » District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
• 1982 » Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
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