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Day of marriage May 13, 1939

• The temperature on May 13, 1939 was between 6.7 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
  • April 9 » African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • May 3 » The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
  • July 4 » Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
  • September 1 » Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
  • November 26 » Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.

Day of death March 18, 1993

• The temperature on March 18, 1993 was between 5.1 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
  • January 13 » Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
  • January 19 » Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
  • February 12 » Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
  • March 27 » Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
  • October 7 » The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1986 » Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
• 1993 » Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909)