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Day of marriage July 11, 1936

• The temperature on July 11, 1936 was between 9.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
  • March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
  • August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Day of death July 29, 2000

• The temperature on July 29, 2000 was between 11.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 27.7 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
  • April 19 » Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Ric Nordman, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Edward Gierek, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Wau Holland, German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951)
• 2003 » Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (b. 1937)