Sluzigers (e.a.) » Klaas Schraa (1906-1975)

Day of marriage October 29, 1937

• The temperature on October 29, 1937 was between 8.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
  • March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
  • June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
  • August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
  • September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

Day of death June 3, 1975

• The temperature on June 3, 1975 was between 4.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • April 17 » The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
  • April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
  • June 20 » The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
  • September 29 » WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
  • November 7 » In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
  • November 28 » East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)