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Day of marriage September 6, 1935

• The temperature on September 6, 1935 was between 9.4 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
  • September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
  • September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
  • October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
  • November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
  • November 22 » The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

Day of death January 30, 1981

• The temperature on January 30, 1981 was between -0.6 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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, 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 Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • April 9 » The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USSGeorge Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
  • April 12 » The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
  • April 14 » STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
  • May 13 » Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
  • June 16 » US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
  • December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1974 » Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1977 » Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
• 1982 » Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1991 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)