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Day of marriage October 15, 1932

• The temperature on October 15, 1932 was between 3.1 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped.
  • April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
  • May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 29 » Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
  • August 10 » A 5.1 kilograms (11lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
  • September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.

Day of death October 8, 2001

• The temperature on October 8, 2001 was between 12.4 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
  • July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
  • July 28 » Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
  • September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • December 22 » Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)
• 2004 » James Chace, American historian and author (b. 1931)