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Day of marriage October 10, 1936

• The temperature on October 10, 1936 was between -0.9 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (84%). 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.
  • August 1 » The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
  • August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
  • August 4 » Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
  • November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
  • December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.

Day of death April 19, 2001

• The temperature on April 19, 2001 was between 1.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • May 21 » French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
  • June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
  • September 14 » Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
  • October 4 » Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
  • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
  • December 12 » Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)