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Day of marriage November 17, 1944

• The temperature on November 17, 1944 was between 0.3 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 30.5 mm of rain during 11.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 29 » World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
  • February 17 » World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
  • June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
  • September 4 » World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
  • October 25 » Second World War: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
  • November 18 » The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.

Day of death May 7, 2001

• The temperature on May 7, 2001 was between 6.9 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
  • May 1 » Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
  • June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
  • July 28 » Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
  • September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
  • October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956)
• 2005 » Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)