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Day of marriage August 29, 1942

• The temperature on August 29, 1942 was between 17.9 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 23.5 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
  • July 6 » Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
  • October 3 » A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
  • November 26 » World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
  • November 27 » World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.

Day of death August 7, 2001

• The temperature on August 7, 2001 was between 15.1 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 20.5 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
  • June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  • September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
  • October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
  • October 19 » SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2003 » K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
• 2004 » Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)