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Day of marriage June 20, 1941

• The temperature on June 20, 1941 was between 11.6 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 28 » The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
  • May 15 » Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
  • June 27 » Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
  • December 1 » World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
  • December 11 » World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.

Day of death January 27, 1985

• The temperature on January 27, 1985 was between -4.2 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • January 10 » Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
  • March 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  • April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
  • May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
  • June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
  • October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian, author, and playwright (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1993 » André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)