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Birthday January 1, 1943

• The temperature on January 1, 1943 was between 0.6 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 19.3 mm of rain during 13.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • February 20 » The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
  • March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
  • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
  • July 4 » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
  • July 4 » World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
  • October 31 » World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1942 » Alassane Ouattara, Ivorian economist and politician, President of the Ivory Coast (doubtful)
• 1942 » Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, English dentist and politician
• 1942 » Country Joe McDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 » Don Novello, American comedian, screenwriter and producer
• 1943 » Tony Knowles, American soldier and politician, 7th Governor of Alaska
• 1943 » Vladimir Šeks, Croatian lawyer and politician, 16th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament