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Day of marriage June 8, 1944

• The temperature on June 8, 1944 was between 9.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 29 » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
  • March 30 » Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
  • August 5 » World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
  • October 8 » World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
  • November 7 » Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.

Day of death June 1, 1974

• The temperature on June 1, 1974 was between 8.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
  • February 12 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • May 30 » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
  • July 24 » Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
  • August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
  • September 8 » Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
  • December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1968 » André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Helen Keller, American author and activist (b. 1880)
• 1969 » Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1979 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Arthur Nielsen, American businessman, founded the ACNielsen company (b. 1897)