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Day of marriage March 21, 1934

• The temperature on March 21, 1934 was between 2.9 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
  • May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  • June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
  • June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
  • September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
  • December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.

Day of death July 14, 1960

• The temperature on July 14, 1960 was between 13.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
  • February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
  • April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
  • July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
  • August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
  • August 19 » Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1965 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
• 1966 » Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1970 » Preston Foster, American actor (b. 1900)