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Day of marriage January 10, 1941

• The temperature on January 10, 1941 was between -9.6 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -7.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • April 16 » World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
  • May 27 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
  • September 4 » World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USSGreer.
  • October 4 » Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
  • December 16 » World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.
  • December 21 » World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

Day of death January 9, 1983

• The temperature on January 9, 1983 was between 3.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
  • March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
  • April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
  • April 25 » Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
  • June 13 » Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
  • July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
  • December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1979 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Kazimierz Serocki, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Robert Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
• 1987 » Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and composer (b. 1909)