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Day of marriage April 8, 1943

• The temperature on April 8, 1943 was between 1.0 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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.
  • February 18 » World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
  • July 22 » World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
  • October 19 » The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
  • October 26 » World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
  • November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Day of death February 7, 2002

• The temperature on February 7, 2002 was between 2.9 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • February 22 » Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
  • April 11 » Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
  • May 12 » Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
  • May 25 » China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
  • May 28 » The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
  • October 29 » Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Bobby Troup, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1918)
• 1999 » King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
• 2000 » Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947)
• 2001 » Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)