FutureHistory » Juliaan Albert van Noten (1919-2009)

Day of marriage June 17, 1944

• The temperature on June 17, 1944 was between 9.7 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 4 » World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
  • August 21 » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
  • August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
  • September 15 » Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
  • October 11 » The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.
  • October 20 » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands.

Day of death July 6, 2009

• The temperature on July 6, 2009 was between 14.9 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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, 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 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
  • April 9 » In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
  • June 10 » James Wenneker von Brunn, who was 88-years-old, opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
  • September 30 » The 7.6 M_w  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
  • December 8 » Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
  • December 17 » MVDanny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2009 » Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
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