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Day of death January 28, 1934

• The temperature on January 28, 1934 was between 0.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
  • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
  • June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
  • December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
  • December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
  • December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1930 » Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano and poet (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1939 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)