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Day of marriage March 30, 1944

• The temperature on March 30, 1944 was between -2.8 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • June 5 » World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
  • 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 9 » The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
  • August 19 » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
  • September 11 » World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
  • September 17 » World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.

Day of death August 30, 1993

• The temperature on August 30, 1993 was between 10.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
  • March 11 » Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
  • March 27 » Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
  • May 18 » Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
  • September 14 » Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.
  • September 22 » A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 1991 » Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
• 1991 » Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (b. 1952)
• 1993 » Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1995 » Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)