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Christening day April 10, 1941

• The temperature on April 10, 1941 was between -1.2 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 25 » The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.
  • April 1 » Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
  • September 4 » World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USSGreer.
  • October 8 » World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
  • November 26 » World War II: Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs the Kuril Islands to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.

Day of marriage April 14, 1698

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1698: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 2 » Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
  • September 5 » In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

Day of death May 14, 1733

• The temperature on May 14, 1733 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1733: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 12 » Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
  • May 29 » The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
  • July 30 » The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
  • November 23 » The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1643 » Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
• 1649 » Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian and academic (b. 1600)
• 1667 » Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601)
• 1688 » Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619)
• 1754 » Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)
• 1761 » Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)