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Day of marriage May 31, 1943

• The temperature on May 31, 1943 was between 12.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 24 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
  • March 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
  • April 5 » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
  • July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
  • August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
  • August 28 » Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.

Day of death November 23, 1981

• The temperature on November 23, 1981 was between 5.5 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
  • May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
  • June 28 » A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
  • July 27 » While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.
  • October 20 » Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
  • December 4 » South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1979 » Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1982 » Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b. 1934)
• 1983 » Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 1984 » Leonard Baker, American historian and author (b. 1931)