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Day of marriage July 13, 1944

• The temperature on July 13, 1944 was between 10.2 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • June 16 » In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
  • August 10 » World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
  • August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
  • October 12 » World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
  • October 18 » World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
  • 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.

Day of death October 12, 2004

• The temperature on October 12, 2004 was between 4.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 14 » The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
  • March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
  • April 25 » The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
  • May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
  • July 16 » Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
  • December 25 » The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2002 » Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (b. 1974)
• 2002 » Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)
• 2003 » Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2005 » C. Delores Tucker, American activist and politician (b. 1927)