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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.
  • January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
  • May 27 » In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
  • June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
  • August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
  • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.

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 26 » The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
  • March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
  • April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
  • September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
  • November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
  • November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.

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)