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Day of marriage November 16, 1944

• The temperature on November 16, 1944 was between 0.3 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 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 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
  • February 7 » World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
  • February 20 » World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
  • 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.
  • September 19 » World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
  • December 15 » World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.

Day of death January 31, 2013

• The temperature on January 31, 2013 was between 6.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 1 » At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
  • April 9 » At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
  • April 12 » Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
  • June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • October 22 » The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
  • December 19 » Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.

Source: Wikipedia

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