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Day of marriage May 15, 1941

• The temperature on May 15, 1941 was between 0.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • April 16 » World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
  • June 27 » Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
  • July 10 » Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
  • September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
  • November 7 » World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
  • December 20 » World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.

Day of death September 5, 1985

• The temperature on September 5, 1985 was between 11.3 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 11 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
  • April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
  • May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
  • August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
  • October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
  • November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Neerja Bhanot, Indian model and youngest recipient of country's highest peacetime military award Ashok Chakra (b. 1963)
• 1988 » Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (b. 1913)