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Day of marriage September 17, 1936

• The temperature on September 17, 1936 was between 10.6 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds to the throne, becoming Edward VIII. The title Prince of Wales is not used for another 22 years.
  • February 10 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
  • August 9 » Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
  • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
  • November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
  • December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.

Day of death May 18, 1985

• The temperature on May 18, 1985 was between 8.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
  • June 19 » Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
  • June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
  • June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
  • November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)