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Day of marriage May 20, 1943

• The temperature on May 20, 1943 was between 8.3 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
  • April 8 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
  • September 5 » World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
  • September 6 » The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
  • October 17 » Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
  • November 3 » World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.

Day of death March 15, 1990

• The temperature on March 15, 1990 was between 2.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded 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, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
  • March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
  • March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
  • April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
  • April 11 » Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
  • July 30 » Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet and politician (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-English journalist (b. 1958)
• 1990 » Tom Harmon, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Rahi Masoom Raza, Indian Urdu poet (b.1927)