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Day of marriage August 31, 1944

• The temperature on August 31, 1944 was between 10.9 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 22 » World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
  • February 22 » World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
  • August 9 » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
  • August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
  • October 15 » World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
  • December 31 » World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front begins.

Day of death February 13, 1960

• The temperature on February 13, 1960 was between -0.4 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
  • January 14 » The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
  • January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
  • January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
  • July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
  • July 8 » Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
  • November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1954 » Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (b. 1880)
• 1958 » Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1964 » Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1896)
• 1964 » Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1902)