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Day of marriage October 28, 1939

• The temperature on October 28, 1939 was between 3.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 16.8 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
  • March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
  • August 27 » First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
  • November 23 » World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
  • November 30 » Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
  • December 13 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMSExeter, HMSAjax and HMSAchilles.

Day of death January 20, 2010

• The temperature on January 20, 2010 was between 1.6 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2010: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
  • May 19 » The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
  • June 13 » A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
  • July 2 » The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
  • September 7 » A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
  • September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2009 » Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian patriarch (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Alejandro Rodriguez, Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Ioannis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior (b. 1933)
• 2012 » John Levy, American bassist and manager (b. 1912)
• 2013 » Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1933)