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Day of marriage August 6, 1931

• The temperature on August 6, 1931 was between 15.5 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
  • March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
  • March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
  • May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
  • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
  • October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.

Day of death December 24, 1997

• The temperature on December 24, 1997 was between 6.3 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
  • June 30 » The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
  • November 27 » Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
  • December 6 » A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1997 » Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman, founded Quebecor (b. 1925)
• 1997 » Toshiro Mifune, Chinese-Japanese actor and producer (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Syl Apps, Canadian ice hockey player and pole vaulter (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Bill Bowerman, American runner, coach, and businessman, co-founded Nike, Inc. (b. 1911)
• 1999 » Maurice Couve de Murville, French soldier and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)