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Day of marriage December 2, 1943

• The temperature on December 2, 1943 was between 0.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 2 » World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
  • May 11 » World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
  • September 10 » World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
  • October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
  • October 6 » World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete.
  • November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.

Day of death November 30, 2001

• The temperature on November 30, 2001 was between 10.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 15.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
  • August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
  • September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
  • October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Janet Lewis, American novelist and poet (b. 1899)
• 1998 » Margaret Walker, American author and poet (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Scott Smith, Canadian bass player (b. 1955)
• 2003 » Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)