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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.
  • January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
  • January 26 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
  • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
  • September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
  • November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
  • 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 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • May 25 » Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
  • September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
  • September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.

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)