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Day of marriage August 8, 1938

• The temperature on August 8, 1938 was between 17.2 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  • December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

Day of death January 8, 1985

• The temperature on January 8, 1985 was between -18.3 °C and -4.0 °C and averaged -9.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
  • March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
  • March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
  • April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
  • May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
  • September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Gale Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1983 » Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1986 » Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906)