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Day of marriage February 11, 1943

• The temperature on February 11, 1943 was between 4.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 14 » World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
  • March 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
  • April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
  • July 11 » World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
  • December 28 » Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.

Day of death March 7, 1985

• The temperature on March 7, 1985 was between 0.5 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
  • March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
  • April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
  • December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1981 » Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1983 » Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1986 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Divine, American drag queen and film actor (b. 1945)
• 1991 » Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)