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Day of marriage May 8, 1943

• The temperature on May 8, 1943 was between 3.9 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
  • May 30 » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • September 6 » The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
  • October 14 » World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
  • November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
  • December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.

Day of death February 6, 1999

• The temperature on February 6, 1999 was between 1.3 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
  • February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
  • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
  • May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • October 22 » Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Falco, Austrian pop-rock musician (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Don Dunstan, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
• 1999 » Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Phil Walters, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (b. 1953)
• 2002 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)