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Day of marriage June 17, 1937

• The temperature on June 17, 1937 was between 8.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
  • 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.
  • December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

Day of death December 23, 2001

• The temperature on December 23, 2001 was between -6.8 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • April 16 » India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
  • May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
  • June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
  • November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
  • November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
  • December 22 » Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

Day of burial December 28, 2001

• The temperature on December 28, 2001 was between 2.7 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
  • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
  • May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
  • September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
  • September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
  • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bola Ige, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Oyo State (b. 1930)
• 2004 » P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1914)