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Day of marriage April 20, 1938

• The temperature on April 20, 1938 was between -0.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (60%). 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
  • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

Day of death April 18, 1963

• The temperature on April 18, 1963 was between 3.7 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • May 22 » Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later.
  • May 25 » The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • August 18 » Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
  • September 15 » Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
  • October 12 » After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
  • December 21 » "Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000–30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.

Day of cremation April 21, 1963

• The temperature on April 21, 1963 was between 10.3 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1963: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
  • April 10 » One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USSThresher sinks at sea.
  • May 30 » A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
  • October 4 » Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
  • November 1 » The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
  • December 26 » The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)