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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.
  • April 1 » Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
  • April 13 » A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
  • July 10 » Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
  • July 11 » The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
  • November 7 » World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
  • December 7 » World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)

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 12 » A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
  • August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
  • October 1 » A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
  • October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
  • October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
  • 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)