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Day of marriage May 26, 1934

• The temperature on May 26, 1934 was between 3.6 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
  • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
  • July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
  • July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
  • September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
  • December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.

Day of death January 9, 2000

• The temperature on January 9, 2000 was between -2.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  • June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Imi Lichtenfeld, Slovakian-Israeli martial artist, founded Krav Maga (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer and academic (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (b. 1926)