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Day of marriage September 24, 1942

• The temperature on September 24, 1942 was between 9.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1 » The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
  • January 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
  • May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
  • June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
  • October 3 » A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
  • November 12 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.

Day of death May 10, 1998

• The temperature on May 10, 1998 was between 10.4 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • February 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
  • March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • May 12 » Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
  • May 30 » Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
  • October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
  • November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator
• 2000 » Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)