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Day of marriage May 17, 1934

• The temperature on May 17, 1934 was between 2.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (68%). 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
  • June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
  • July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
  • July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
  • September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
  • November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

Day of death July 18, 1995

• The temperature on July 18, 1995 was between 16.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
  • March 14 » Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
  • March 16 » Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
  • July 9 » The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
  • July 23 » Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
  • December 7 » The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
• 1989 » Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (b. 1967)
• 1990 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (b. 1897)
• 2001 » Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)