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Day of marriage May 12, 1942

• The temperature on May 12, 1942 was between 8.7 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 15 » World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
  • March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
  • 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.
  • August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
  • November 26 » Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.
  • December 4 » World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.

Day of death September 10, 1984

• The temperature on September 10, 1984 was between 10.0 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.7 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1984: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
  • February 10 » Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
  • June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
  • August 5 » A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
  • August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
  • October 5 » Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1983 » B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (b. 1941)
• 1983 » Norah Lofts, English author (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
• 1985 » Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)