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Day of marriage December 2, 1932

• The temperature on December 2, 1932 was between -2.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
  • January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
  • February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
  • September 17 » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
  • December 19 » BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

Day of death June 16, 1976

• The temperature on June 16, 1976 was between 9.8 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
  • September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
  • September 21 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
  • November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1974 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (b. 1931)
• 1979 » Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1896)