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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.
  • April 5 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMSCornwall and HMSDorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
  • June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
  • August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
  • August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
  • November 1 » World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.

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 21 » The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
  • 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.
  • June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
  • July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
  • July 31 » A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Canada.
  • August 31 » Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.

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