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Day of marriage August 27, 1938

• The temperature on August 27, 1938 was between 10.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.

Day of death October 14, 1994

• The temperature on October 14, 1994 was between 3.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that they were both taking part in.
  • May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
  • June 30 » During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board.
  • October 27 » Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
  • October 29 » Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
  • December 24 » Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
• 1998 » Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)