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Day of marriage October 18, 1934

• The temperature on October 18, 1934 was between 3.0 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
  • May 23 » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
  • July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
  • July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  • September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
  • September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.

Day of death March 24, 2003

• The temperature on March 24, 2003 was between 0.5 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (73%). 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 Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
  • February 10 » France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
  • August 10 » European heat wave: The then-highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, England. This record was later surpassed in July 2019.
  • August 19 » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
  • September 27 » The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
  • December 24 » The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50kg of explosives at 3:55p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)
• 2002 » César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2003 » Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)