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Day of marriage September 30, 1942

• The temperature on September 30, 1942 was between 11.2 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 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 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • July 1 » The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
  • September 21 » The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
  • October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
  • November 8 » World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

Day of death December 21, 2002

• The temperature on December 21, 2002 was between 1.5 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Wedding of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
  • July 15 » "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
  • September 10 » Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
  • September 26 » The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MVLe Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
  • October 11 » A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.
  • November 13 » During the Prestige oil spill a storm burst a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002 off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.

Source: Wikipedia

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