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Day of marriage February 14, 1945

• The temperature on February 14, 1945 was between 4.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
  • February 4 » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
  • April 26 » World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
  • May 29 » First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
  • June 7 » King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
  • August 19 » August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Day of death September 14, 2011

• The temperature on September 14, 2011 was between 11.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 people.
  • February 17 » Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
  • May 1 » Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
  • May 2 » Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • July 22 » Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
  • November 12 » Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.

Source: Wikipedia

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