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Day of marriage May 17, 1944

• The temperature on May 17, 1944 was between 2.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • May 1 » World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
  • June 14 » World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
  • July 21 » World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
  • August 23 » World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
  • August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
  • September 12 » World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

Day of death August 1, 2000

• The temperature on August 1, 2000 was between 15.3 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
  • June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
  • August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
  • November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
  • November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
  • November 26 » George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1998 » Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
• 2003 » Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Marie Trintignant, French actress and screenwriter (b. 1962)