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Day of marriage February 7, 1945

• The temperature on February 7, 1945 was between 5.1 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
  • March 22 » World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.
  • April 15 » Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
  • July 30 » World War II: Japanese submarineI-58 sinks the USSIndianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
  • October 15 » The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed for treason.
  • October 18 » The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Day of death February 25, 2000

• The temperature on February 25, 2000 was between 2.9 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • May 7 » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
  • July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
  • September 10 » Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

Day of burial March 1, 2000

• The temperature on March 1, 2000 was between 2.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (38%). 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 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
  • May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
  • May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
  • October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
  • November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
  • November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (b. 1940)
• 1997 » Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (b. 1925)
• 1998 » W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2001 » A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)