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Day of marriage March 31, 1938

• The temperature on March 31, 1938 was between 7.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • 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.
  • April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
  • April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Day of death February 23, 1995

• The temperature on February 23, 1995 was between 3.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 22 » The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
  • February 26 » The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
  • May 24 » While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
  • September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
  • October 26 » An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, 20 of whom died.
  • November 30 » Official end of Operation Desert Storm.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
• 1995 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1945)
• 1998 » Philip Abbott, American actor and director (b. 1924)
• 1999 » The Renegade, American wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2000 » Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)