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Day of marriage November 6, 1937

• The temperature on November 6, 1937 was between 6.3 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
  • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
  • March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
  • June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
  • September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
  • December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Day of death March 12, 2005

• The temperature on March 12, 2005 was between 1.3 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
  • May 21 » The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
  • July 7 » A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
  • August 14 » Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
  • September 26 » The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.
  • October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 » Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
• 2004 » Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)