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Day of marriage April 14, 1938

• The temperature on April 14, 1938 was between 7.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
  • March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
  • October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Day of death January 3, 2008

• The temperature on January 3, 2008 was between -1.8 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 14 » Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
  • June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
  • July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
  • September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • September 11 » A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
  • September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2007 » János Fürst, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1935)
• 2007 » William Verity, Jr., American businessman and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Choi Yo-sam, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
• 2009 » Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
• 2009 » Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1923)