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Birthday June 14, 1943

• The temperature on June 14, 1943 was between 9.4 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
  • March 13 » German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
  • April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
  • April 8 » Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
  • December 13 » World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1943 » Barry Burman, English painter and academic († 2001)
• 1943 » Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, and producer
• 1943 » Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
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