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Day of marriage June 20, 1942

• The temperature on June 20, 1942 was between 4.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
  • May 12 » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
  • July 4 » World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
  • July 18 » World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
  • October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.

Day of death January 8, 2002

• The temperature on January 8, 2002 was between -3.0 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
  • May 3 » An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
  • May 28 » The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
  • September 23 » The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
  • November 4 » Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
  • November 19 » The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2004 » John A. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1930)
• 2006 » Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (b. 1943)