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Day of marriage September 3, 1942

• The temperature on September 3, 1942 was between 13.6 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
  • June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
  • July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
  • October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.
  • November 12 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
  • December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Day of death May 10, 1987

• The temperature on May 10, 1987 was between 3.8 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
  • July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
  • July 24 » US supertanker SSBridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
  • November 18 » King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
  • November 22 » Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
  • December 8 » An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1977 » Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator