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Day of marriage October 8, 1936

• The temperature on October 8, 1936 was between -1.2 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
  • July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
  • November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

Day of death February 14, 1985

• The temperature on February 14, 1985 was between -11.2 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -5.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
  • March 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
  • March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
  • June 17 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
  • July 7 » Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Lina Radke, German runner and coach (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Edmund Rubbra, English composer and conductor (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Frederick Loewe, German-American composer (b. 1901)
• 1989 » James Bond, American ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Vincent Crane, English pianist (b. 1943)