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Day of marriage March 27, 1945

• The temperature on March 27, 1945 was between 3.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (26%). 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 3 » World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
  • February 23 » World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
  • March 27 » World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
  • May 6 » World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
  • August 14 » The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
  • September 15 » A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.

Day of death April 23, 1999

• The temperature on April 23, 1999 was between 4.8 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
  • March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
  • May 25 » The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
  • July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
  • July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
  • September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (b. 1913)
• 1996 » P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (b. 1899)
• 1997 » Denis Compton, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1918)
• 1998 » James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 172nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Thanassis Skordalos, Greek singer-songwriter and lyra player (b. 1920)