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Day of marriage June 4, 1942

• The temperature on June 4, 1942 was between 12.5 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1 » World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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".
  • March 1 » World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
  • March 14 » Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
  • July 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
  • November 21 » The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).

Day of death November 29, 1993

• The temperature on November 29, 1993 was between -4.6 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1993: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
  • January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
  • March 12 » Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
  • March 29 » Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
  • May 10 » In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
  • June 5 » Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.
  • July 26 » Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1991 » Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1992 » Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 1993 » J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (b. 1904)
• 1996 » Dan Flavin, American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Denis Jenkinson, English journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (b. 1918)