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Day of marriage May 27, 1943

• The temperature on May 27, 1943 was between 10.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 11 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
  • March 5 » First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
  • July 23 » World War II: The British destroyers HMSEclipse and HMSLaforey sink the Italian submarineAscianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMSNewfoundland.
  • September 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
  • November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
  • November 28 » World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.

Day of death January 11, 1968

• The temperature on January 11, 1968 was between -7.6 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • March 6 » Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
  • May 30 » Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
  • July 23 » Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
  • August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
  • November 15 » The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
  • December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 » Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
• 1966 » Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
• 1968 » Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
• 1969 » Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Padraic Colum, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1881)