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Day of marriage May 17, 1934

• The temperature on May 17, 1934 was between 2.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 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 year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
  • March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • 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.
  • June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
  • October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
  • December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.

Day of death June 1, 2000

• The temperature on June 1, 2000 was between 10.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
  • July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
  • October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
  • October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
• 2001 » notable victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
• 2002 » Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)