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Day of marriage May 17, 1934

• The temperature on May 17, 1934 was between 3.2 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
  • February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
  • March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
  • June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
  • September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.

Day of death November 14, 1949

• The temperature on November 14, 1949 was between 2.4 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • January 31 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
  • February 24 » The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
  • April 4 » Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • May 4 » The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
  • September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1932 » Charles Hylton Stewart, English organist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1937 » Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air marshal (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1876)
• 1947 » Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1873)