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Day of marriage September 23, 1943

• The temperature on September 23, 1943 was between 2.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (76%). 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.
  • February 23 » Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
  • April 30 » World War II: The British submarine HMSSeraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
  • May 14 » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSCentaur off the coast of Queensland.
  • August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
  • September 23 » World War II: The Nazi puppet state known as the Italian Social Republic is founded.

Day of death July 18, 1947

• The temperature on July 18, 1947 was between 15.4 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
  • May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
  • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
  • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
  • October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
  • December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1944 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b.1905)
• 1949 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)