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Day of marriage May 6, 1938

• The temperature on May 6, 1938 was between 4.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
  • August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
  • September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
  • September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Day of death October 7, 1983

• The temperature on October 7, 1983 was between 9.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
  • March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
  • March 23 » Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
  • July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
  • September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
  • November 5 » Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
• 1990 » Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (b.1971)
• 1991 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)