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Day of marriage June 7, 1941

• The temperature on June 7, 1941 was between 10.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
  • May 27 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
  • July 11 » The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
  • August 29 » World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
  • December 19 » World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
  • December 26 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

Day of death February 21, 1987

• The temperature on February 21, 1987 was between -2.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
  • March 7 » Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
  • August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
  • November 1 » British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
  • November 22 » Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
  • December 22 » In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)