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Day of marriage May 3, 1944

• The temperature on May 3, 1944 was between 3.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
  • February 29 » World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
  • April 26 » Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
  • October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.

Day of death April 12, 2004

• The temperature on April 12, 2004 was between -1.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
  • March 12 » The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
  • April 24 » The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
  • June 1 » Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record.
  • September 23 » Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
  • December 26 » Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
• 2002 » George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Moran Campbell, Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask (b. 1925)
• 2006 » William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Kevin Crease, Australian journalist (b. 1936)
• 2008 » Cecilia Colledge, English-American figure skater and coach (b. 1920)