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Day of marriage May 16, 1939

• The temperature on May 16, 1939 was between 7.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 26.6 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
  • April 9 » African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • July 6 » Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.
  • August 27 » First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
  • September 1 » The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.

Day of death February 6, 1974

• The temperature on February 6, 1974 was between 0.7 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • March 29 » NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
  • June 29 » Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
  • August 1 » Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
  • August 7 » Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417m) in the air.
  • August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
  • November 16 » The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
• 1972 » Julian Steward, American anthropologist (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1976 » Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Ben Nicholson, British painter (b. 1894)