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Day of marriage January 8, 1935

• The temperature on January 8, 1935 was between -1.7 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
  • May 27 » New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
  • June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
  • July 24 » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death August 8, 2000

• The temperature on August 8, 2000 was between 13.0 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
  • September 10 » Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • November 26 » George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
  • November 30 » NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
• 2003 » Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Leon Golub, American painter and academic (b. 1922)