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Day of marriage April 16, 1938

• The temperature on April 16, 1938 was between 3.0 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
  • October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

Day of death February 17, 2014

• The temperature on February 17, 2014 was between 0.3 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
  • April 9 » A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
  • June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
  • October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
  • October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • October 31 » During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Richard Briers, English actor (b. 1934)
• 2013 » Shmulik Kraus, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1935)
• 2013 » Sophie Kurys, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1952)
• 2014 » Peter Florin, German politician and diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1921)
• 2014 » Wayne Smith, Jamaican singer (b. 1965)