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Day of marriage July 20, 1935

• The temperature on July 20, 1935 was between 12.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
  • October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
  • October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
  • November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
  • December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Day of death February 12, 1973

• The temperature on February 12, 1973 was between 2.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 21.0 mm of rain during 11.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
  • May 29 » Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
  • June 28 » Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
  • August 5 » Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
  • August 22 » The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
  • August 23 » A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (b. 1903)
• 1971 » James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (b. 1875)
• 1975 » Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)