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Day of marriage November 4, 1937

• The temperature on November 4, 1937 was between 2.1 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 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 year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
  • July 29 » Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
  • December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Day of death September 20, 1993

• The temperature on September 20, 1993 was between 9.9 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 3 » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • January 18 » Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
  • 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.
  • February 26 » World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
  • March 27 » Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
  • November 20 » Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)