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Day of marriage May 27, 1943

• The temperature on May 27, 1943 was between 10.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
  • March 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
  • March 19 » Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
  • 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.
  • April 30 » World War II: The British submarine HMSSeraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
  • November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

Day of death June 25, 1999

• The temperature on June 25, 1999 was between 6.4 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 15.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
  • August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
  • August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
  • October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
  • October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
  • December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1995 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Warren E. Burger, Fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1914)
• 1997 » Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1934)
• 2003 » Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)