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Day of marriage June 17, 1941

• The temperature on June 17, 1941 was between 6.6 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
  • May 20 » World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
  • June 14 » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
  • October 2 » World War II: In Operation Typhoon, the Wehrmacht attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter.
  • October 20 » World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
  • December 21 » World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

Day of death December 2, 2009

• The temperature on December 2, 2009 was between 0.1 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 29 » The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
  • February 7 » Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
  • March 23 » FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
  • June 8 » Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
  • September 29 » The 8.1 M_w  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.
  • October 1 » The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.

Source: Wikipedia

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