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Day of marriage May 1, 1943

• The temperature on May 1, 1943 was between 9.2 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • January 15 » The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
  • January 29 » World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USSChicago(CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
  • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
  • August 28 » Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
  • October 22 » World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.

Day of death August 27, 1973

• The temperature on August 27, 1973 was between 11.1 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
  • January 7 » In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
  • April 4 » The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
  • June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
  • August 15 » Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
  • November 7 » The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
  • November 17 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Erika Mann, German actress and author (b. 1905)
• 1969 » Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)
• 1971 » Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)