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Day of marriage May 25, 1944

• The temperature on May 25, 1944 was between 9.8 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
  • March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
  • March 19 » World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
  • June 4 » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
  • August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
  • September 17 » World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

Day of death August 11, 2006

• The temperature on August 11, 2006 was between 10.3 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 25.2 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2006: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 20 » Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
  • August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
  • October 9 » North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
  • October 22 » A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum.
  • October 28 » A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
  • November 23 » A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Dursun Karataş, founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952)
• 2008 » George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2009 » Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)