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Day of marriage May 17, 1941

• The temperature on May 17, 1941 was between 2.6 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • April 16 » World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
  • September 5 » Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
  • September 17 » World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.
  • December 24 » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.

Day of death January 4, 1991

• The temperature on January 4, 1991 was between 4.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • February 9 » Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
  • March 23 » The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
  • April 10 » Italian ferry MSMoby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
  • September 19 » Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
  • October 3 » Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Lily Laskine, French harp player (b. 1893)
• 1990 » Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Henry Bolte, Australian sergeant and politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (b. 1908)
• 1994 » R. D. Burman, Indian film composer and music director (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
• 1995 » Sol Tax, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1907)