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Day of marriage May 25, 1935

• The temperature on May 25, 1935 was between 10.6 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
  • February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
  • April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
  • May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
  • August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
  • December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.

Day of death January 8, 1961

• The temperature on January 8, 1961 was between 2.8 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
  • January 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
  • February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
  • May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
  • July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
  • September 17 » The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1953 » Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1956 » Jim Elliot, American missionary and martyr (b. 1928)
• 1958 » Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)
• 1961 » Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910)
• 1963 » Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898)