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Day of marriage May 13, 1937

• The temperature on May 13, 1937 was between 8.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
  • June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
  • June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.

Day of death March 28, 2001

• The temperature on March 28, 2001 was between 3.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 21 » French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
  • May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
  • June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
  • September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
  • September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
  • October 22 » Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.

Day of burial April 1, 2001

• The temperature on April 1, 2001 was between 5.7 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • April 16 » India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
  • 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.
  • September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
  • September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
  • November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
  • December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Franco Gasparri, Italian actor (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905)
• 2001 » Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)