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Day of marriage February 23, 1935

• The temperature on February 23, 1935 was between 0.2 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
  • January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
  • February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
  • April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
  • September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.

Day of death May 10, 1989

• The temperature on May 10, 1989 was between 4.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • April 2 » ASUS corporation is founded.
  • May 20 » The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
  • June 4 » Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
  • June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
  • November 22 » In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
  • December 3 » Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator
• 2000 » Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)