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Day of marriage June 17, 1941

• The temperature on June 17, 1941 was between 6.6 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 9 » World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
  • April 27 » World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
  • May 6 » At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
  • May 8 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
  • August 31 » World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
  • December 1 » World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.

Day of death May 17, 2001

• The temperature on May 17, 2001 was between 9.2 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
  • March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
  • 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.
  • September 12 » Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
  • 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".
  • November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian trumpet player and producer (b. 1949)
• 2000 » Donald Coggan, English archbishop (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Turkish poet and composer (b. 1940)
• 2002 » László Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1927)