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Day of marriage December 17, 1934

• The temperature on December 17, 1934 was between 5.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
  • March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
  • June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
  • July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
  • December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

Day of death June 16, 1971

• The temperature on June 16, 1971 was between 7.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
  • January 2 » The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
  • January 22 » The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
  • April 23 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
  • May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
  • July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
  • August 1 » The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1967 » Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1971 » John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
• 1974 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894)