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Day of marriage January 4, 1938

• The temperature on January 4, 1938 was between -12.4 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
  • September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
  • November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.

Day of death December 6, 2003

• The temperature on December 6, 2003 was between -2.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • March 16 » American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah trying to obstruct the demolition of a home by being run over by a bulldozer.
  • August 19 » A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
  • August 19 » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
  • September 25 » The 8.3 M_w  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
  • November 22 » Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
  • December 24 » The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50kg of explosives at 3:55p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan general and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
• 2005 » Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)