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Day of marriage February 18, 1943

• The temperature on February 18, 1943 was between -0.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 11 » The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
  • February 18 » World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
  • March 15 » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
  • July 5 » World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
  • August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
  • November 3 » World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.

Day of death February 4, 1997

• The temperature on February 4, 1997 was between 0.7 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
  • June 5 » The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins.
  • July 23 » Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
  • August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
  • October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
  • December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
• 1992 » John Dehner, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1995 » Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
• 2003 » Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algerian pharmacist and politician (b. 1920)