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Day of marriage May 26, 1942

• The temperature on May 26, 1942 was between 9.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
  • June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • July 10 » World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
  • 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.
  • September 13 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
  • December 6 » World War II in villages Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka German Genarmerie massacred 31 Poles for helping the Jews. Also, two Jewish refugees were murdered.

Day of death October 7, 1988

• The temperature on October 7, 1988 was between 8.5 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1988: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
  • May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
  • August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
  • November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
  • November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
  • November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
  • November 22 » In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1985 » Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
• 1990 » Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (b.1971)
• 1991 » Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
• 1991 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)