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Day of marriage May 25, 1935

• The temperature on May 25, 1935 was between 10.6 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • February 13 » A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
  • February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
  • April 8 » The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
  • May 14 » The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
  • August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.

Day of death October 5, 1970

• The temperature on October 5, 1970 was between 13.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
  • May 14 » Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
  • July 23 » Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
  • October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
  • October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
  • November 14 » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)