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Day of marriage January 28, 1933

• The temperature on January 28, 1933 was between -12.1 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged -4.5 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 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 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
  • March 23 » The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
  • May 18 » New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
  • August 1 » Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
  • August 24 » The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
  • December 15 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.

Day of death September 1, 1964

• The temperature on September 1, 1964 was between 8.5 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1964: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.0 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
  • February 27 » The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
  • June 10 » United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
  • August 1 » The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • August 19 » Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched.
  • September 25 » The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909)
• 1974 » Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (b. 1891)