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Day of marriage September 25, 1942

• The temperature on September 25, 1942 was between 7.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
  • February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
  • March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
  • June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
  • December 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

Day of death December 7, 1981

• The temperature on December 7, 1981 was between -0.7 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​⁄₂ million units around the world.
  • May 13 » Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
  • May 25 » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
  • September 21 » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
  • October 22 » The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
  • December 1 » Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
• 1984 » LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)