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Day of marriage June 1, 1939

• The temperature on June 1, 1939 was between 11.4 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (83%). 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 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.
  • January 13 » The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
  • February 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
  • March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
  • April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
  • August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
  • August 25 » The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.

Day of death October 1, 1997

• The temperature on October 1, 1997 was between 15.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
  • May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • August 20 » Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
  • August 26 » Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
  • December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Curtis LeMay, American general (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Petra Kelly, German activist and politician (b. 1947)
• 1994 » Paul Lorenzen, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1915)
• 1997 » Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Walter Annenberg, American publisher and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)