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Day of death May 4, 1943

• The temperature on May 4, 1943 was between 4.4 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
  • February 20 » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
  • February 22 » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
  • March 13 » German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
  • May 11 » World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
  • July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1938 » Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1938 » Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1880)
• 1945 » Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1953 » Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1955 » George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)