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Day of marriage September 11, 1937

• The temperature on September 11, 1937 was between 6.2 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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.
  • February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
  • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
  • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
  • April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
  • May 7 » Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
  • May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.

Day of death October 11, 2000

• The temperature on October 11, 2000 was between 7.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
  • September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • October 31 » Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
  • December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Keith Boyce, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1943)
• 1998 » Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Leo Lionni, Dutch-American author and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Donald Dewar, Scottish lawyer and politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2000 » Luc-Marie Bayle, French historian, photographer, and painter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Beni Montresor, Italian director, set designer, and illustrator (b. 1926)