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Day of marriage May 11, 1935

• The temperature on May 11, 1935 was between 7.5 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
  • April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
  • May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
  • July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
  • September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

Day of death October 9, 1998

• The temperature on October 9, 1998 was between 2.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
  • August 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
  • August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.
  • October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
  • October 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
  • December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
• 1996 » Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
• 2000 » David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 » Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)