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Day of marriage May 26, 1941

• The temperature on May 26, 1941 was between 9.7 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • January 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
  • March 28 » World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.
  • May 20 » World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
  • July 31 » World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
  • October 4 » Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
  • December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

Day of death August 26, 2014

• The temperature on August 26, 2014 was between 10.4 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2014: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
  • March 12 » A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
  • April 2 » A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
  • April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
  • September 18 » Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
  • December 5 » Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is launched.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2013 » Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)
• 2013 » John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
• 2014 » Caroline Kellett, English journalist (b. 1960)
• 2014 » Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)
• 2014 » Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950)