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Day of marriage January 14, 1936

• The temperature on January 14, 1936 was between -0.2 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • February 29 » February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
  • April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
  • May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
  • June 28 » The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
  • August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
  • September 9 » The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRPAfonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.

Day of death July 28, 1980

• The temperature on July 28, 1980 was between 13.6 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
  • May 18 » Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
  • August 1 » Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
  • November 4 » Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of The United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
  • December 1 » Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.
  • December 24 » Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953)
• 1987 » Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1909)