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Day of marriage January 7, 1943

• The temperature on January 7, 1943 was between -3.4 °C and -1.6 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 11.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 2 » World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
  • February 3 » The SSDorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
  • March 22 » World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
  • May 13 » World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
  • July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
  • November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

Day of death September 6, 1999

• The temperature on September 6, 1999 was between 11.7 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
  • March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
  • May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
  • August 31 » A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
  • December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
  • December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (b. 1952)
• 1999 » Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
• 1999 » René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian Military (b. 1918)