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Day of marriage May 5, 1938

• The temperature on May 5, 1938 was between 1.4 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

Day of death June 22, 1994

• The temperature on June 22, 1994 was between 9.2 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • June 1 » Republic of South Africa becomes a Commonwealth republic.
  • August 12 » Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
  • September 8 » USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
  • November 13 » In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
  • December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
  • December 24 » Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Pat Nixon, American educator, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (b. 1927)
• 1995 » Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1997 » Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1919)
• 1997 » Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1956)