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Day of marriage August 5, 1942

• The temperature on August 5, 1942 was between 10.1 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 13 » Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
  • February 14 » Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
  • March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
  • June 8 » World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
  • August 22 » Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
  • November 12 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.

Day of death July 9, 1943

• The temperature on July 9, 1943 was between 7.1 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 6 » World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
  • May 16 » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
  • July 24 » World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
  • August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
  • September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.
  • October 8 » World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1932 » King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Oliver Law, American commander (b. 1899)
• 1938 » Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
• 1949 » Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
• 1951 » Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)