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Day of marriage August 12, 1934

• The temperature on August 12, 1934 was between 10.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 37.9 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
  • February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
  • March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
  • August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
  • September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.

Day of death August 30, 2000

• The temperature on August 30, 2000 was between 6.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
  • 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.
  • October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
  • October 31 » Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
  • November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
  • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (b. 1910)
• 2002 » J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)