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Day of marriage December 28, 1942

• The temperature on December 28, 1942 was between -6.6 °C and -1.9 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 15 » The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
  • May 8 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USSLexington.
  • August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
  • August 16 » World War II: A naval L-class blimp drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in Daly City, California. The two-man crew cannot be found.
  • August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

Day of death March 22, 1995

• The temperature on March 22, 1995 was between -2.3 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • January 25 » The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
  • February 17 » The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
  • June 5 » The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
  • September 28 » Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
  • October 3 » The O. J. Simpson murder case ended with a verdict of not guilty.
  • November 21 » The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 » Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
• 1994 » Walter Lantz, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Billy Williamson, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Don Murray, American drummer (b. 1945)
• 1996 » Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1936)