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Day of marriage May 15, 1943

• The temperature on May 15, 1943 was between 7.7 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • January 29 » World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USSChicago(CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
  • July 9 » World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily soon causes the downfall of Mussolini and forces Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
  • August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
  • November 6 » The 1st Ukrainian Front, led by general Nikolai Vatutin, liberates Kyiv from fascist occupation.
  • November 15 » The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

Day of death July 10, 1980

• The temperature on July 10, 1980 was between 13.5 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
  • February 28 » Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
  • February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
  • August 2 » A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
  • August 25 » Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
  • November 23 » The 6.9 M_w  Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
• 1986 » Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
• 1987 » John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)