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Day of marriage October 9, 1944

• The temperature on October 9, 1944 was between 9.5 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • January 29 » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
  • June 17 » Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
  • August 24 » World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
  • October 21 » World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
  • October 21 » World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMASAustralia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
  • October 30 » Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.

Day of death November 25, 1997

• The temperature on November 25, 1997 was between 0.6 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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, 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
  • May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
  • August 26 » Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
  • September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
  • December 30 » In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

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• 1995 » Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (b. 1914)
• 1997 » Hastings Banda, Malawian physician and politician, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
• 1998 » Flip Wilson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Nelson Goodman, American philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Valentín Campa, Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904)
• 2000 » Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (b. 1917)