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Day of marriage January 4, 1937

• The temperature on January 4, 1937 was between 6.4 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
  • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
  • September 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
  • October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.

Day of death April 14, 1983

• The temperature on April 14, 1983 was between 5.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
  • March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
  • May 6 » The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
  • May 26 » The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
  • June 4 » Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
  • July 23 » Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1978 » F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
• 1986 » Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (b. 1908)