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Birthday February 7, 1942

• The temperature on February 7, 1942 was between -13.1 °C and -7.5 °C and averaged -10.5 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
  • January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
  • February 1 » Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
  • May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
  • July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
  • November 27 » World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1940 » Tony Tan, Singaporean academic and politician, 7th President of Singapore
• 1941 » Kevin Crossley-Holland, English author and poet
• 1943 » Eric Foner, American historian, author, and academic
• 1943 » Gareth Hunt, English actor († 2007)
• 1945 » Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player and journalist
• 1946 » Héctor Babenco, Argentinian-Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)