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Day of marriage March 16, 1945

• The temperature on March 16, 1945 was between 2.2 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • March 9 » World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
  • April 4 » World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
  • April 14 » Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
  • April 17 » Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.
  • May 6 » World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
  • September 2 » Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Day of death November 9, 1998

• The temperature on November 9, 1998 was between 9.8 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
  • March 19 » An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
  • April 6 » Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
  • May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
  • May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
  • October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Joe Ghiz, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
• 1997 » Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905)
• 1997 » Helenio Herrera, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 2000 » Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (b. 1927)