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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 22 » World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
  • March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
  • June 4 » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
  • June 25 » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
  • July 21 » World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
  • August 9 » The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

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 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
  • February 15 » The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
  • May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
  • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  • November 13 » War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
  • December 22 » Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

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)