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Day of marriage January 10, 1942

• The temperature on January 10, 1942 was between -8.0 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (84%). 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 26 » World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
  • February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • June 7 » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
  • June 23 » World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

Day of death November 17, 1968

• The temperature on November 17, 1968 was between -2.7 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
  • July 1 » The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
  • October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • December 11 » The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.
  • December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1958 » Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1959 » Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1968 » Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1971 » Gladys Cooper, English actress (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880)