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Day of marriage May 20, 1938

• The temperature on May 20, 1938 was between 2.3 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). 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.
  • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
  • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

Day of death December 31, 2000

• The temperature on December 31, 2000 was between -4.5 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
  • September 15 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
  • September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, Indian Muslim scholar and author (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966)
• 2000 » José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)