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Day of marriage May 6, 1939

• The temperature on May 6, 1939 was between 7.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • January 24 » The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
  • February 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
  • April 20 » Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday's celebrations in Germany
  • June 12 » Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
  • September 10 » World War II: The submarine HMSOxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMSTriton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
  • December 13 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMSExeter, HMSAjax and HMSAchilles.

Day of death March 24, 1997

• The temperature on March 24, 1997 was between 5.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
  • June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
  • June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
  • September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
  • September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
  • December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)
• 1999 » Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
• 2001 » Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)