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Day of marriage May 28, 1936

• The temperature on May 28, 1936 was between 7.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
  • March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
  • March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
  • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
  • August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
  • August 30 » The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.

Day of death September 10, 1978

• The temperature on September 10, 1978 was between 16.1 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 19 » The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
  • March 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
  • April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
  • May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
  • July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
  • August 22 » The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1973 » Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
• 1979 » Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
• 1983 » Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)