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Day of marriage July 23, 1941

• The temperature on July 23, 1941 was between 8.9 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • May 10 » World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
  • May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
  • June 14 » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
  • July 26 » World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
  • September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

Day of death April 12, 1970

• The temperature on April 12, 1970 was between 3.3 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
  • April 22 » The first Earth Day is celebrated.
  • August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
  • September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
  • September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
  • November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
• 1968 » Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and dentist (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Arthur Freed, American songwriter and producer (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Josephine Baker, French actress, activist, and humanitarian (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Philip K. Wrigley, American businessman, co-founded Lincoln Park Gun Club (b. 1894)