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Day of marriage September 3, 1937

• The temperature on September 3, 1937 was between 12.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
  • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
  • June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
  • July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

Day of death December 13, 1980

• The temperature on December 13, 1980 was between 5.2 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 14 » LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
  • March 24 » El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
  • April 3 » US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
  • May 27 » The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
  • July 7 » Institution of sharia law in Iran.
  • July 30 » Vanuatu gains independence.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1975 » Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (b. 1934)
• 1979 » Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet and translator (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Jon Hall, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Alexander Schmemann, Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921)
• 1983 » Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1933)