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Day of marriage February 27, 1932

• The temperature on February 27, 1932 was between -3.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 28 » Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
  • April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
  • May 28 » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
  • June 4 » Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
  • June 24 » A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
  • December 10 » Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.

Day of death December 20, 1995

• The temperature on December 20, 1995 was between -4.0 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
  • April 7 » First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
  • April 19 » Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
  • May 1 » Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
  • July 18 » On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
  • September 19 » The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 1993 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)