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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 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.
  • May 11 » World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
  • May 16 » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
  • June 25 » The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
  • October 14 » World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
  • November 6 » The 1st Ukrainian Front, led by general Nikolai Vatutin, liberates Kyiv from fascist occupation.

Day of death September 17, 2005

• The temperature on September 17, 2005 was between 4.8 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • April 22 » Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
  • April 23 » The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
  • April 25 » Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
  • May 10 » A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 60 feet from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
  • November 30 » John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
  • December 5 » The 6.8 M_w  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)
• 2003 » Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
• 2005 » Alfred Reed, American composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Jacques Lacarrière, French journalist and critic (b. 1925)
• 2009 » Dick Durock, American stuntman and actor (b. 1937)
• 2009 » Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968)