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Day of marriage October 23, 1937

• The temperature on October 23, 1937 was between 8.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
  • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
  • December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
  • December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Day of death August 24, 1988

• The temperature on August 24, 1988 was between 10.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
  • June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
  • August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
  • September 29 » NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
  • December 2 » Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
  • December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 1990 » Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 1991 » Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (b. 1904)
• 1992 » André Donner, Dutch academic and judge (b. 1918)