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Day of marriage November 24, 1943

• The temperature on November 24, 1943 was between 3.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 14 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
  • February 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
  • March 6 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
  • July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
  • November 5 » World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.

Day of death March 31, 2005

• The temperature on March 31, 2005 was between 7.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • March 26 » Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
  • April 27 » Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
  • May 31 » Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
  • September 12 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
  • November 23 » Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
  • December 3 » XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2003 » Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Scott Helvenston, American soldier (b. 1965)
• 2005 » Frank Perdue, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 2005 » Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist and academic (b. 1951)
• 2006 » Jackie McLean, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)