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Day of marriage June 18, 1937

• The temperature on June 18, 1937 was between 6.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
  • April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
  • April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
  • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
  • December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

Day of death September 3, 2000

• The temperature on September 3, 2000 was between 12.3 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
  • May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
  • November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Edward Anhalt, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Pauline Kael, American film critic and author (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (b. 1919)
• 2002 » W. Clement Stone, American businessman, philanthropist, and author (b. 1902)
• 2003 » Alan Dugan, American soldier and poet (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (b. 1914)