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Day of marriage July 27, 1945

• The temperature on July 27, 1945 was between 10.5 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 13.0 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • January 30 » World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
  • February 4 » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
  • March 16 » World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
  • April 28 » Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
  • May 1 » World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
  • July 17 » World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

Day of death November 13, 1996

• The temperature on November 13, 1996 was between 1.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • January 29 » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
  • March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
  • April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
  • June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
  • September 27 » The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory, who establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
  • November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Jack Baker, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 1994 » Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1959)
• 1997 » André Boucourechliev, Bulgarian-French pianist and composer (b. 1925)
• 1998 » Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)