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Day of death April 10, 1942

• The temperature on April 10, 1942 was between 6.1 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • June 5 » World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
  • September 15 » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSWasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
  • September 20 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
  • September 26 » Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
  • October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1938 » King Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
• 1942 » Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor and director (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Andreas Faehlmann, Estonian-German sailor and engineer (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer and typographer (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Charles Nordhoff, English-American lieutenant and author (b. 1887)