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Day of marriage May 19, 1938

• The temperature on May 19, 1938 was between 3.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
  • September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Day of death October 25, 1979

• The temperature on October 25, 1979 was between 5.2 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
  • February 20 » An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H₂S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
  • September 7 » The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5billion to avoid bankruptcy.
  • November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
  • November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
  • December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Félix Gouin, French politician (b. 1884)
• 1979 » Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948)
• 1980 » Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (b. 1912)