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Day of marriage June 7, 1944

• The temperature on June 7, 1944 was between 7.8 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 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 year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
  • July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
  • September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
  • November 4 » World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies.
  • November 16 » World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.

Day of death September 2, 1991

• The temperature on September 2, 1991 was between 10.3 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.
  • February 18 » The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
  • May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
  • August 30 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
  • September 8 » The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
  • September 17 » The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » M. Alalasundaram, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician
• 1987 » Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player (b. 1935)
• 1990 » Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (b. 1937)
• 1991 » Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1996 » Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1953)