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Day of marriage April 16, 1937

• The temperature on April 16, 1937 was between 7.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 27 » In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
  • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
  • July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
  • July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

Day of death September 8, 1991

• The temperature on September 8, 1991 was between 8.5 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • March 16 » The airplane carrying eight members of Reba McEntire's touring band crashed on the side of Otay Mountain.
  • April 4 » Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
  • June 26 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
  • September 17 » Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
  • October 14 » Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • December 25 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1990 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916)