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Day of marriage May 15, 1941

• The temperature on May 15, 1941 was between 0.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • May 31 » Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
  • June 14 » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
  • August 15 » Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
  • October 8 » World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
  • December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
  • December 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.

Day of death February 22, 2001

• The temperature on February 22, 2001 was between 1.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
  • March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
  • March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
  • August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
  • September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
  • December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
• 1999 » William Bronk, American poet and academic (b. 1918)
• 2002 » Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (b. 1916)