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Day of marriage September 2, 1931

• The temperature on September 2, 1931 was between 9.4 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
  • July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
  • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
  • October 17 » Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.

Day of death April 4, 1967

• The temperature on April 4, 1967 was between 6.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The 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 November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1967: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.5 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • March 18 » The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
  • November 15 » The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
  • December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
  • December 4 » Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
  • December 13 » Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1961 » Harald Riipalu, Estonian military commander (b. 1912)
• 1967 » Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated)(b. 1929)
• 1972 » Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American pastor and politician (b. 1908)
• 1972 » Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and academic (b. 1902)