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Day of marriage August 19, 1937

• The temperature on August 19, 1937 was between 12.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
  • February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
  • November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.

Day of death February 28, 2001

• The temperature on February 28, 2001 was between 1.1 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
  • May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
  • September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
  • October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
  • October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
  • November 12 » In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Dermot Morgan, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian general and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)