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Day of marriage August 14, 1939

• The temperature on August 14, 1939 was between 7.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • April 30 » NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
  • May 14 » Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
  • June 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
  • September 1 » World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
  • December 18 » World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
  • December 24 » World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

Day of death November 28, 1992

• The temperature on November 28, 1992 was between 1.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
  • May 13 » Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
  • May 23 » Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
  • May 24 » The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.
  • September 12 » Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
  • November 16 » The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Sidney Nolan, Australian-English painter and academic (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Garry Moore, American comedian, television personality, and game show host (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Jerry Edmonton, Canadian-American drummer (b. 1946)
• 1994 » Buster Edwards, English boxer and criminal (b. 1932)
• 1994 » Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
• 1994 » Jerry Rubin, American businessman and activist (b. 1938)