Sluzigers (e.a.) » Harm Waard (1914-2004)

Day of marriage May 10, 1944

• The temperature on May 10, 1944 was between 0.9 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 6 » World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
  • March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
  • July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
  • August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
  • December 31 » World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front begins.

Day of death May 2, 2004

• The temperature on May 2, 2004 was between 10.2 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947.
  • May 17 » The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
  • May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
  • July 4 » The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
  • November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
  • November 11 » New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943)
• 2002 » W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean journalist and politician, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Louis Rukeyser, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Brad McGann, New Zealand director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
• 2008 » Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)