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Birthday September 5, 1942

• The temperature on September 5, 1942 was between 8.4 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • February 9 » Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
  • 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.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
  • August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
  • October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1940 » Raquel Welch, American actress and singer
• 1940 » Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician
• 1941 » Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1942 » Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer († 1995)
• 1942 » Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development († 2007)