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Day of marriage April 10, 1934

• The temperature on April 10, 1934 was between 3.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  • 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 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
  • September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
  • September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
  • November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.

Day of death November 1, 2003

• The temperature on November 1, 2003 was between 7.5 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily 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.
  • 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.
  • August 22 » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
  • October 14 » The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
  • November 15 » The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.
  • December 17 » The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
  • December 25 » The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.

Source: Wikipedia

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