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Day of marriage October 12, 1939

• The temperature on October 12, 1939 was between 7.7 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • January 24 » The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
  • March 16 » From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
  • June 12 » The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
  • June 24 » Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister.
  • August 27 » First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
  • November 23 » World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

Day of death October 27, 1998

• The temperature on October 27, 1998 was between 4.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 15.8 mm of rain during 13.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
  • May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
  • May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
  • August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
  • October 29 » ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
  • December 6 » in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (b. 1939)
• 1999 » Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
• 2001 » Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)