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Day of marriage July 8, 1943

• The temperature on July 8, 1943 was between 5.7 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
  • February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
  • April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
  • April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
  • September 11 » World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
  • November 22 » Lebanon gains independence from France.

Day of death November 30, 1966

• The temperature on November 30, 1966 was between 1.9 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1966: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
  • February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
  • March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
  • June 30 » The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
  • July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
  • September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
  • October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1955 » Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and educator (b. 1896)
• 1958 » Hubert Wilkins, Australian pilot, ornithologist, geographer, and explorer (b. 1888)
• 1966 » Salah Suheimat, Jordanian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1967 » Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish actor, author, and academic (b. 1883)
• 1977 » Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1911)