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Day of marriage July 19, 1943

• The temperature on July 19, 1943 was between 10.4 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 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 2 » World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
  • June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
  • July 28 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
  • August 17 » World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
  • September 6 » Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.

Day of death August 21, 1989

• The temperature on August 21, 1989 was between 15.7 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • January 24 » Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison.
  • April 21 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
  • April 26 » The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
  • May 2 » Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
  • August 19 » Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
  • December 22 » Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1988 » Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1989 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
• 1993 » Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)