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Day of marriage May 24, 1944

• The temperature on May 24, 1944 was between 3.0 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 15 » World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
  • April 4 » World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
  • August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
  • August 21 » World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
  • September 3 » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
  • November 7 » Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.

Day of death February 7, 2001

• The temperature on February 7, 2001 was between 9.0 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
  • February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
  • February 15 » The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
  • May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
  • September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
  • December 19 » A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Bobby Troup, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1918)
• 1999 » King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
• 2000 » Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947)
• 2001 » Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)