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Day of marriage July 4, 1938

• The temperature on July 4, 1938 was between 9.8 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 11.0 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). 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 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.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
  • June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.

Day of death May 7, 1996

• The temperature on May 7, 1996 was between 4.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (94%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
  • January 31 » An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
  • February 24 » Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
  • April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
  • April 4 » Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
  • May 13 » Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912)