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Day of marriage July 9, 1944

• The temperature on July 9, 1944 was between 13.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • June 25 » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
  • August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
  • September 9 » World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
  • October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
  • November 7 » Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
  • November 12 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

Day of death March 4, 1994

• The temperature on March 4, 1994 was between 1.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
  • February 22 » Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
  • March 23 » At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
  • April 7 » Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
  • May 18 » Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
  • October 27 » Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Art Hodes, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1993 » Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment (b. 1929)
• 1993 » Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1953)
• 1994 » George Edward Hughes, Irish-Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1918)
• 1994 » John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)