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Day of marriage June 7, 1944

• The temperature on June 7, 1944 was between 8.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 5 » World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
  • August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
  • October 2 » World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
  • October 12 » World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
  • October 18 » World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
  • December 22 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"

Day of death December 18, 2005

• The temperature on December 18, 2005 was between -1.2 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • February 20 » Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
  • August 14 » Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
  • September 24 » Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
  • December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
  • December 17 » Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
  • December 24 » Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2004 » Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
• 2006 » Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer (b. 1905)
• 2006 » Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and activist (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)