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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.
  • February 5 » World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
  • March 17 » In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • July 7 » The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
  • September 22 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
  • November 19 » World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
  • December 8 » World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)

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.
  • August 17 » Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
  • August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
  • October 1 » Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
  • October 8 » Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
  • October 17 » 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
  • November 7 » Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 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)