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Day of marriage January 28, 1943

• The temperature on January 28, 1943 was between 6.6 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
  • January 14 » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
  • January 23 » World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
  • July 23 » The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
  • November 23 » World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.

Day of death April 26, 2005

• The temperature on April 26, 2005 was between 4.7 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 29 » The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
  • February 16 » The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
  • August 18 » A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
  • August 29 » Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125billion in damage.
  • September 16 » The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2005 » Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)