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Day of marriage June 9, 1941

• The temperature on June 9, 1941 was between 9.0 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • February 5 » World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
  • April 27 » World War II: German troops enter Athens.
  • May 6 » The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
  • September 22 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
  • December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.

Day of death August 12, 1973

• The temperature on August 12, 1973 was between 12.3 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • March 17 » The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • April 4 » The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
  • May 17 » Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
  • October 19 » President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
  • November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
  • December 3 » Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)