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Day of marriage August 5, 1943

• The temperature on August 5, 1943 was between 10.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 23 » A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
  • June 4 » A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
  • October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
  • December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
  • December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

Day of death November 30, 1999

• The temperature on November 30, 1999 was between 6.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
  • April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
  • May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
  • August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
  • October 31 » EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
  • December 5 » Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first to be elected to the role.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Kathy Acker, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1947)
• 1998 » Janet Lewis, American novelist and poet (b. 1899)
• 1998 » Margaret Walker, American author and poet (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Scott Smith, Canadian bass player (b. 1955)