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Day of marriage November 30, 1944

• The temperature on November 30, 1944 was between 4.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • June 13 » World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
  • June 14 » World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
  • August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
  • September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
  • November 19 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

Day of death December 10, 2007

• The temperature on December 10, 2007 was between 5.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 2007: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 22 » At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
  • February 27 » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
  • April 3 » Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
  • May 4 » Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
  • May 5 » Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
  • October 15 » Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

Source: Wikipedia

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