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Birthday January 7, 1943

• The temperature on January 7, 1943 was between -3.4 °C and -1.6 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 11.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • June 25 » The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
  • July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
  • August 1 » World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
  • November 1 » World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
  • November 23 » World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
  • December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1941 » John E. Walker, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 » Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach († 2011)
• 1943 » Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes († 1955)
• 1944 » Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and academic († 2020)
• 1944 » Mike McGear, British performing artist and rock photographer