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Day of marriage August 5, 1936

• The temperature on August 5, 1936 was between 9.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). 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.
  • March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
  • June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
  • July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
  • October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
  • November 25 » In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
  • December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Day of death May 28, 2004

• The temperature on May 28, 2004 was between 0.8 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
  • February 27 » Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
  • April 6 » Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
  • August 24 » 90 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
  • September 29 » The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
  • November 26 » The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2004 » John Tolos, Greek-Canadian wrestler (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (b. 1979)
• 2004 » Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (b. 1934)