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Day of marriage February 13, 1943

• The temperature on February 13, 1943 was between 4.2 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
  • March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
  • June 20 » The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
  • October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
  • October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
  • December 8 » World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.

Day of death September 1, 1954

• The temperature on September 1, 1954 was between 10.4 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • March 19 » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record that remains unbroken.
  • July 15 » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
  • August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
  • September 9 » The 6.7 M_w  Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
  • October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
• 1953 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)