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Day of marriage May 13, 1944

• The temperature on May 13, 1944 was between 8.9 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • March 24 » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
  • June 7 » World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
  • June 10 » World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
  • July 17 » World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
  • August 4 » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  • September 15 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.

Day of death April 7, 2014

• The temperature on April 7, 2014 was between 11.9 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
  • April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
  • September 27 » The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
  • October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
  • October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • December 31 » A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

Source: Wikipedia

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