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Day of marriage May 31, 1933

• The temperature on May 31, 1933 was between 4.6 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• 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 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
  • January 24 » The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
  • March 15 » Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
  • May 27 » New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
  • October 10 » A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
  • December 6 » U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

Day of death June 26, 2004

• The temperature on June 26, 2004 was between 5.6 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 12 » The world's largest ocean liner, RMSQueen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
  • April 30 » U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
  • June 8 » The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
  • July 4 » The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
  • November 26 » Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
  • December 30 » A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 2003 » Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
• 2003 » Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902)
• 2004 » Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Ott Arder, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1950)
• 2004 » Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (b. 1929)