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Day of marriage May 9, 1931

• The temperature on May 9, 1931 was between 5.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
  • May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
  • July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
  • December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

Day of death June 5, 1989

• The temperature on June 5, 1989 was between 3.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • February 3 » A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
  • April 26 » The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
  • June 4 » Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
  • August 2 » A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
  • August 16 » A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.
  • August 19 » Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933)
• 1997 » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Sam Yorty, American soldier and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)