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Day of marriage February 25, 1942

• The temperature on February 25, 1942 was between -6.8 °C and -1.2 °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.
  • February 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
  • February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
  • March 12 » The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
  • July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
  • August 24 » World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USSEnterprise is heavily damaged.
  • November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

Day of death June 26, 1994

• The temperature on June 26, 1994 was between 13.9 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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 1994: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
  • May 7 » Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
  • July 4 » Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
  • October 31 » American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board.
  • November 9 » The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
  • November 20 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 1993 » William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (b. 1932)
• 1996 » Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)