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Day of marriage June 13, 1936

• The temperature on June 13, 1936 was between 10.8 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
  • July 26 » King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
  • August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
  • August 30 » The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
  • September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza

Day of death November 25, 1978

• The temperature on November 25, 1978 was between 0.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • April 7 » Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
  • June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
  • June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
  • July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
  • September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
  • November 23 » The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Laurence Harvey, Lithuania-born English actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 » Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1974 » U Thant, Burmese lawyer and diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Saleem Raza (Pakistani singer), Pakistani Christian playback singer (b. 1932)