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Day of marriage May 10, 1941

• The temperature on May 10, 1941 was between 2.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
  • March 15 » Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
  • May 9 » World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
  • September 30 » World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
  • October 2 » World War II: In Operation Typhoon, the Wehrmacht attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter.
  • December 15 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.

Day of death February 5, 1979

• The temperature on February 5, 1979 was between -3.4 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
  • March 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
  • July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • September 20 » A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
  • October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
  • November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1972 » Marianne Moore, American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1926)
• 1977 » Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1981 » Ella T. Grasso, American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Neil Aggett, Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)