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Day of marriage January 2, 1943

• The temperature on January 2, 1943 was between 0.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
  • August 27 » World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
  • September 11 » World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
  • September 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
  • November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
  • December 28 » Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.

Day of death July 17, 1974

• The temperature on July 17, 1974 was between 9.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 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 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 1 » A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
  • February 8 » After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
  • February 22 » Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.
  • May 9 » Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
  • September 1 » The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353km/h).
  • November 16 » The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.

Source: Wikipedia

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