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Day of marriage July 14, 1933

• The temperature on July 14, 1933 was between 14.5 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). 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 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.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
  • March 4 » Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • March 31 » The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
  • April 4 » U.S. Navy airship USSAkron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
  • September 3 » Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
  • September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

Day of death December 13, 2000

• The temperature on December 13, 2000 was between 9.2 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
  • November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
  • November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
  • November 13 » Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
  • December 19 » The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
• 2001 » Michael Bradshaw, British-Canadian actor (b. 1933)
• 2002 » Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)