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Day of marriage May 14, 1941

• The temperature on May 14, 1941 was between 5.8 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
  • May 27 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
  • July 5 » World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper river.
  • July 11 » The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
  • September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
  • October 31 » After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.

Day of death January 14, 2008

• The temperature on January 14, 2008 was between 2.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
  • May 2 » Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
  • May 23 » The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
  • May 28 » The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
  • September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
  • October 29 » Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Henri Colpi, French director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
• 2007 » Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, director, and set designer (b. 1934)
• 2008 » Judah Folkman, American physician, biologist, and academic (b. 1933)
• 2009 » Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (b. 1937)
• 2009 » Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (b. 1920)