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Day of marriage June 13, 1935

• The temperature on June 13, 1935 was between 11.8 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • June 12 » A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
  • September 15 » Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
  • October 10 » In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
  • December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

Day of death December 5, 1974

• The temperature on December 5, 1974 was between 4.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • January 19 » China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam
  • May 9 » Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
  • May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
  • July 23 » The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
  • September 8 » Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
  • December 8 » A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1969 » Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
• 1969 » Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)
• 1977 » Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)