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Day of marriage April 28, 1932

• The temperature on April 28, 1932 was between 5.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • February 18 » The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
  • May 23 » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
  • May 29 » World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
  • July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
  • July 20 » In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.
  • September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.

Day of death April 9, 1947

• The temperature on April 9, 1947 was between 1.1 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
  • March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
  • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
  • July 4 » The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
  • July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
  • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1945 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Hans Oster, German general (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Johann Georg Elser, German carpenter (b. 1903)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (b. 1887)
• 1948 » George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
• 1948 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Colombian Minister of National Education (b. 1903)