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Birthday January 17, 1944

• The temperature on January 17, 1944 was between -0.5 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 19 » World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
  • July 6 » Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
  • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
  • October 21 » World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
  • October 26 » World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
  • November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist († 2016)
• 1943 » Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 » René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti († 2017)
• 1944 » Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic
• 1945 » Anne Cutler, Australian psychologist and academic
• 1945 » Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer