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Day of marriage May 16, 1944

• The temperature on May 16, 1944 was between 1.3 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 3 » World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
  • April 4 » World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
  • April 10 » Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
  • June 22 » World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
  • July 7 » World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
  • July 26 » World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.

Day of death March 7, 1999

• The temperature on March 7, 1999 was between 2.8 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • March 27 » Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
  • May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
  • October 22 » Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
  • November 2 » Xerox murders: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
  • December 6 » A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
  • December 31 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ended after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 » Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)