Descendants Clement Corbin » William Henry Eller (1902-1981)

Day of marriage February 23, 1943

• The temperature on February 23, 1943 was between 1.2 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 6 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
  • April 30 » World War II: The British submarine HMSSeraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
  • July 23 » The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
  • July 23 » World War II: The British destroyers HMSEclipse and HMSLaforey sink the Italian submarineAscianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMSNewfoundland.
  • October 13 » World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
  • October 16 » Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.

Day of death September 27, 1981

• The temperature on September 27, 1981 was between 8.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
  • March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
  • June 16 » US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
  • July 30 » As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
  • November 30 » Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)
  • December 4 » South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).

Source: Wikipedia

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