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Day of marriage September 1, 1942

• The temperature on September 1, 1942 was between 14.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • January 25 » World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
  • March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
  • May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
  • June 5 » World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
  • September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
  • November 27 » World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.

Day of death February 25, 1997

• The temperature on February 25, 1997 was between 8.7 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
  • June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
  • July 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
  • July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • August 31 » Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
  • September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (b. 1940)
• 1997 » Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (b. 1925)
• 1998 » W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2001 » A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)