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Day of marriage June 2, 1938

• The temperature on June 2, 1938 was between 7.8 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • October 31 » Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
  • 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.

Day of death December 7, 1983

• The temperature on December 7, 1983 was between -0.3 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
  • January 19 » Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
  • June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
  • September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
  • October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
  • November 15 » Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence. Recognized only by Turkey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
• 1984 » LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1985 » J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)