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Day of marriage March 3, 1933

• The temperature on March 3, 1933 was between 7.8 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). 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 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 4 » Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • March 20 » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
  • April 7 » Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
  • July 6 » The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
  • 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.
  • October 7 » Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.

Day of death March 4, 1993

• The temperature on March 4, 1993 was between -2.5 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
  • February 8 » General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
  • February 28 » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
  • March 27 » Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
  • September 24 » The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
  • November 20 » Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

Day of cremation March 9, 1993

• The temperature on March 9, 1993 was between -1.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
  • April 21 » The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
  • June 1 » Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
  • August 21 » NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
  • October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
  • October 4 » Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1992 » Pare Lorentz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Art Hodes, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1993 » Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment (b. 1929)
• 1993 » Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1953)