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Day of marriage October 20, 1938

• The temperature on October 20, 1938 was between 2.3 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • 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.
  • November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
  • December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

Day of death November 25, 1975

• The temperature on November 25, 1975 was between -3.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
  • April 4 » Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • April 30 » Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
  • June 5 » The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
  • July 17 » Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
  • December 2 » Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director (b. 1925)
• 1972 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Laurence Harvey, Lithuania-born English actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 » Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1974 » U Thant, Burmese lawyer and diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Jack Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1907)