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Day of marriage September 24, 1932

• The temperature on September 24, 1932 was between 9.6 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
  • February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • March 19 » The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
  • May 12 » Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
  • September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
  • November 8 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.

Day of death September 14, 1987

• The temperature on September 14, 1987 was between 13.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
  • April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
  • May 5 » Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
  • June 12 » The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
  • August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
  • December 9 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
• 1984 » Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1986 » Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright (b. 1930)
• 1991 » Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1910)