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Day of marriage August 18, 1937

• The temperature on August 18, 1937 was between 13.1 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
  • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
  • June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
  • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
  • September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
  • December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

Day of death February 2, 2002

• The temperature on February 2, 2002 was between 8.7 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
  • January 17 » Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
  • March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
  • May 9 » The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
  • June 29 » Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
  • October 2 » The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
• 2002 » Claude Brown, American author (b. 1937)
• 2002 » Paul Baloff, American singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 2003 » Lou Harrison, American composer and educator (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Bernard McEveety, American director and producer (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Birgitte Federspiel, Danish actress (b. 1925)