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Day of marriage May 7, 1942

• The temperature on May 7, 1942 was between 5.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
  • February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
  • June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • August 9 » World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
  • September 12 » World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Japanese troops.
  • December 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

Day of death August 5, 1995

• The temperature on August 5, 1995 was between 11.7 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
  • March 2 » Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
  • April 7 » First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
  • August 5 » Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
  • November 13 » Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
  • November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Paul Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
• 1998 » Otto Kretschmer, German commander (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1911)