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Day of marriage May 23, 1930

• The temperature on May 23, 1930 was between 8.8 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
  • January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
  • February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
  • June 9 » A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
  • December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
  • December 29 » Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

Day of death February 16, 1998

• The temperature on February 16, 1998 was between 7.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
  • March 24 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
  • June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
  • July 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
  • July 17 » The 7.0 M_w  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
  • August 7 » Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

Day of burial February 19, 1998

• The temperature on February 19, 1998 was between 3.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavor launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
  • February 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
  • March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
  • May 30 » The 6.5 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
  • November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
• 1996 » Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932)
• 1997 » Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (b. 1908)