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Day of marriage April 28, 1936

• The temperature on April 28, 1936 was between 5.7 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). 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 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.
  • June 30 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
  • August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
  • August 30 » The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

Day of death July 16, 1989

• The temperature on July 16, 1989 was between 9.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 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 Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
  • January 30 » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
  • February 2 » Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
  • April 1 » Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
  • July 6 » The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
  • December 13 » The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
• 1991 » Frank Rizzo, American police officer and politician, 93rd Mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (b. 1915)