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Day of marriage August 11, 1943

• The temperature on August 11, 1943 was between 10.9 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
  • August 2 » World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
  • September 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
  • October 19 » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
  • November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

Day of death February 19, 2014

• The temperature on February 19, 2014 was between 6.1 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 9 » A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
  • April 14 » Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
  • April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
  • July 15 » A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
  • October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
  • October 14 » The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2013 » Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2013 » Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (b. 1948)
• 2014 » Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)