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Day of marriage February 23, 1943

• The temperature on February 23, 1943 was between 0.9 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 11 » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
  • February 23 » A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
  • June 25 » The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
  • October 26 » World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
  • December 17 » All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.

Day of death November 10, 2002

• The temperature on November 10, 2002 was between -1.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
  • February 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
  • May 12 » Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
  • August 30 » Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
  • November 18 » Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
  • December 27 » Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2000 » Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, 171st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, 153rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Ken Kesey, American novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1935)
• 2002 » Michel Boisrond, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Irv Kupcinet, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1912)