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Day of marriage August 3, 1944

• The temperature on August 3, 1944 was between 13.3 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • July 21 » World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
  • August 29 » World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
  • September 15 » Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
  • September 27 » The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
  • October 20 » Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
  • December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"

Day of death July 5, 1949

• The temperature on July 5, 1949 was between 10.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • April 1 » The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
  • June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
  • August 22 » The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
  • October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
  • October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880)
• 1945 » John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1948 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
• 1948 » Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (b. 1871)