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Day of marriage November 25, 1937

• The temperature on November 25, 1937 was between -0.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
  • May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
  • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
  • December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

Day of death December 16, 2005

• The temperature on December 16, 2005 was between 1.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
  • April 23 » The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
  • April 24 » Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
  • June 21 » Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
  • October 19 » Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
  • December 7 » Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2004 » Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist, co-founded The Point (b. 1946)
• 2004 » Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2005 » Ed Hansen, American director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2005 » John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
• 2005 » Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)