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Day of marriage October 29, 1931

• The temperature on October 29, 1931 was between 3.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
  • March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
  • April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
  • May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
  • August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
  • September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

Day of death December 2, 1942

• The average temperature on December 2, 1942 was 2.2 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • February 8 » World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
  • February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
  • May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
  • June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • July 18 » The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
  • September 26 » Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » John Ringling, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (b. 1866)
• 1943 » Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier (b. 1917)
• 1944 » Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (b. 1917)