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Day of marriage May 12, 1938

• The temperature on May 12, 1938 was between 0.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
  • June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.

Day of death July 4, 1986

• The temperature on July 4, 1986 was between 12.3 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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 year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
  • May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
  • July 9 » The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
  • August 21 » Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
  • October 5 » Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
  • November 25 » The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1986 » Flor Peeters, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critique musical and physicist (b. 1933)
• 1988 » Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
• 1990 » Olive Ann Burns, American journalist and author (b. 1924)