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Day of marriage August 11, 1934

• The temperature on August 11, 1934 was between 10.0 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  • August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
  • September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
  • September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
  • December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

Day of death December 5, 1984

• The temperature on December 5, 1984 was between 5.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • March 16 » William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
  • May 27 » The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
  • June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • August 1 » Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
  • November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
  • December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1983 » Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
• 1989 » John Pritchard, English conductor and director (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)