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Day of marriage February 6, 1931

• The temperature on February 6, 1931 was between -7.2 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -4.6 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
  • March 19 » Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
  • July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
  • July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
  • October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
  • December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Day of death May 14, 1990

• The temperature on May 14, 1990 was between 5.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 3 » United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
  • January 4 » In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
  • April 7 » Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
  • June 13 » First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
  • July 21 » Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
  • November 5 » Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

Day of burial May 17, 1990

• The temperature on May 17, 1990 was between 7.2 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
  • April 7 » Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
  • April 24 » STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
  • April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
  • September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
  • December 8 » Galileo (spacecraft) flies past Earth.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)
• 1987 » Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian poet and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (b. 1886)
• 1991 » Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (b. 1899)
• 1993 » William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1908)