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Day of marriage May 13, 1933

• The temperature on May 13, 1933 was between 0.1 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• 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 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 22 » Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
  • August 1 » Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
  • September 3 » Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
  • October 10 » A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
  • December 5 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
  • December 6 » U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

Day of death September 8, 1977

• The temperature on September 8, 1977 was between 9.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1977: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
  • May 1 » Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
  • August 10 » In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
  • November 6 » The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
  • November 12 » France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.
  • November 19 » TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
  • December 25 » Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1974 » Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)