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Day of marriage May 12, 1943

• The temperature on May 12, 1943 was between 9.4 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
  • June 20 » The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
  • October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
  • October 22 » World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
  • November 22 » World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
  • December 13 » World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.

Day of death December 10, 1987

• The temperature on December 10, 1987 was between -3.4 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
  • May 3 » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
  • August 19 » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
  • October 1 » The 5.9 M_w  Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
  • October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
  • December 7 » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901)
• 1988 » Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (b. 1895)
• 1988 » Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer and coach (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1990 » Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter and academic (b. 1901)