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Day of marriage February 25, 1942

• The temperature on February 25, 1942 was between -7.1 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • March 14 » Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
  • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
  • June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
  • July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
  • November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
  • December 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

Day of death July 4, 1945

• The temperature on July 4, 1945 was between 6.5 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • January 28 » World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
  • January 31 » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
  • February 15 » World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
  • April 4 » World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
  • May 29 » First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
  • August 23 » World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
• 1949 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (b. 1874)