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Day of marriage December 3, 1942

• The temperature on December 3, 1942 was between -2 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 24 » World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
  • July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
  • July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
  • September 26 » Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
  • December 10 » World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.

Day of death December 29, 2003

• The temperature on December 29, 2003 was between 1.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2003: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
  • January 27 » The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
  • February 18 » Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
  • March 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
  • August 11 » Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • October 17 » Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
  • October 26 » The Cedar Fire, the third-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000km), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Adele Stimmel Chase, American sculptor and painter (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
• 2003 » Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1915)