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Day of marriage May 14, 1936

• The temperature on May 14, 1936 was between 6.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • July 20 » The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
  • November 8 » Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
  • November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
  • December 7 » Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

Day of death December 15, 1998

• The temperature on December 15, 1998 was between 7.0 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 10.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
  • February 23 » In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
  • March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • April 6 » Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
  • May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
  • October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
• 2003 » George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2003 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan educator and politician, Speaker of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943)