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Day of marriage April 3, 1923

• The temperature on April 3, 1923 was between 0.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
  • April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
  • July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
  • October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

Day of death February 26, 1945

• The temperature on February 26, 1945 was between 7.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
  • February 16 » World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
  • March 21 » World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
  • March 27 » World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
  • March 29 » World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
  • May 11 » World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USSBunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes.
  • August 25 » Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others
• 1952 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)