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Day of marriage May 11, 1944

• The temperature on May 11, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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.
  • April 25 » The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
  • April 29 » World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
  • July 9 » World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
  • August 12 » Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
  • August 12 » Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
  • December 18 » World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

Day of death June 28, 1994

• The temperature on June 28, 1994 was between 14.3 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 22.1 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • May 4 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
  • May 7 » Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
  • May 24 » Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
  • July 25 » Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
  • December 3 » Taiwan held the first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only direct elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directed Mayor of Kaohsiung.
  • December 11 » First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Guy Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1955)
• 1992 » Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
• 1995 » Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
• 2000 » Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (b. 1913)
• 2000 » Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)