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Day of marriage August 3, 1939

• The temperature on August 3, 1939 was between 10.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • February 27 » United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.
  • March 22 » Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
  • June 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
  • September 6 » World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.
  • September 30 » World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
  • December 18 » World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.

Day of death June 15, 2000

• The temperature on June 15, 2000 was between 8.8 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
  • February 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
  • June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
  • July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
  • December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2000 » Jules Roy, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1907)
• 2001 » Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
• 2002 » Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, founded Taekwondo (b. 1918)
• 2003 » Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor (b. 1911)