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Day of marriage May 5, 1944

• The temperature on May 5, 1944 was between 7.2 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • April 22 » The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
  • April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
  • June 10 » In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
  • June 25 » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
  • August 21 » World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.

Day of death August 17, 2013

• The temperature on August 17, 2013 was between 16.6 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 18 » Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
  • June 23 » Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan killing ten climbers, and a local guide.
  • July 16 » As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
  • July 18 » The Government of Detroit, with up to $20billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
  • July 20 » Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
  • November 19 » A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915)
• 2013 » Frank Martínez, American painter (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912)
• 2013 » Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 2013 » John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929)
• 2013 » Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938)