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Day of marriage March 8, 1945

• The temperature on March 8, 1945 was between 3.2 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • February 21 » World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
  • March 16 » Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
  • May 5 » World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
  • May 5 » World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, the only battle in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
  • May 7 » World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
  • June 28 » Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.

Day of death March 6, 1988

• The temperature on March 6, 1988 was between 0.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
  • April 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
  • May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
  • August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
  • August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
  • November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1984 » Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (b. 1961)
• 1984 » Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)
• 1988 » Daniel McCann, Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1988 » Mairéad Farrell, Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1988 » Seán Savage, Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1965)