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Day of marriage July 16, 1942

• The temperature on July 16, 1942 was between 8.2 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • February 24 » An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
  • April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
  • May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
  • June 21 » World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
  • August 30 » World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
  • September 15 » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSWasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.

Day of death August 23, 1987

• The temperature on August 23, 1987 was between 13.2 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
  • March 19 » Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
  • July 4 » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
  • August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
  • December 22 » In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)