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Day of marriage May 12, 1934

• The temperature on May 12, 1934 was between 11.7 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
  • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
  • May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  • July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
  • August 2 » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
  • August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.

Day of death January 3, 1999

• The temperature on January 3, 1999 was between 3.5 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
  • April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
  • December 2 » The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
  • December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
  • December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
  • December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Judith Anderson, British actress (b. 1897)
• 2002 » Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Jimmy Stewart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and educator (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat, 2nd Indian National Security Adviser (b. 1936)
• 2005 » Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (b. 1917)