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Day of marriage August 28, 1941

• The temperature on August 28, 1941 was between 10.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 18 » World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
  • June 1 » World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
  • June 26 » World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
  • December 7 » World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
  • December 9 » World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
  • December 19 » World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMSValiant and HMSQueen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.

Day of death May 14, 1985

• The temperature on May 14, 1985 was between 9.1 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
  • May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
  • May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
  • July 13 » Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
  • September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
  • December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Roger J. Traynor, American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Walter Rauff, German SS officer (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)
• 1987 » Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian poet and playwright (b. 1914)