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Day of marriage April 6, 1943

• The temperature on April 6, 1943 was between 0.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 27 » The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
  • April 13 » The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
  • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
  • June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
  • September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.

Day of death January 1, 2018

• The temperature on January 1, 2018 was between 5.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2018: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 17.2 million citizens.
  • February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
  • March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
  • March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
  • April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
  • October 17 » Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
  • October 27 » A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6, including 4 police officers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2017 » Derek Parfit, British philosopher (b. 1942)
• 2017 » Tony Atkinson, British economist (b. 1944)
• 2017 » Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
• 2018 » Robert Mann, American violinist (b. 1920)
• 2019 » Paul Neville, Australian politician (b. 1940)
• 2019 » Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (b. 1952)