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Day of marriage March 9, 1939

• The temperature on March 9, 1939 was between 2.8 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • March 16 » From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
  • March 26 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
  • September 10 » World War II: The submarine HMSOxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMSTriton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
  • November 8 » In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
  • November 8 » Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.

Day of death April 3, 1999

• The temperature on April 3, 1999 was between 7.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
  • May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
  • September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
  • December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1999 » Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian general (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
• 2000 » Dina Abramowicz, Librarian and YIVO and Yiddish language expert (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Terence McKenna, American botanist and philosopher (b. 1946)