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Day of marriage June 15, 1939

• The temperature on June 15, 1939 was between 8.4 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 27 » First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
  • February 5 » Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
  • March 23 » The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovak air force in Spišská Nová Ves, killing 13 people and beginning the Slovak–Hungarian War.
  • April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
  • June 12 » The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
  • December 27 » The 7.8 M_w  Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.

Day of death December 11, 1996

• The temperature on December 11, 1996 was between -1.5 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 15 » At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
  • May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
  • July 18 » Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
  • July 27 » In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
  • September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
  • November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
• 1995 » Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)
• 1996 » Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937)
• 1997 » Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914)
• 1997 » Simon Jeffes, English guitarist and composer (b. 1949)
• 1998 » André Lichnerowicz, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)