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Day of marriage February 26, 1941

• The temperature on February 26, 1941 was between -3.6 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
  • May 27 » World War II: The German battleshipBismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
  • June 22 » World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
  • July 6 » The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
  • July 11 » The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
  • October 17 » World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.

Day of death May 31, 2005

• The temperature on May 31, 2005 was between 6.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 21 » In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
  • March 16 » Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
  • April 14 » The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
  • May 21 » The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
  • August 31 » The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
  • December 6 » An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.

Day of burial June 6, 2005

• The temperature on June 6, 2005 was between 8.3 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 6 » A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
  • February 14 » YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
  • August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
  • August 31 » The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
  • October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Étienne Roda-Gil, French screenwriter and composer (b. 1941)
• 2004 » Aiyathurai Nadesan, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1954)
• 2004 » Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)