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Day of marriage November 20, 1942

• The temperature on November 20, 1942 was between 6.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
  • 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.
  • February 20 » Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
  • April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
  • August 13 » Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
  • October 2 » World War II: Ocean Liner RMSQueen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMSCuracoa, killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa.

Day of death November 19, 1997

• The temperature on November 19, 1997 was between 2.3 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
  • April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
  • June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
  • July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
  • August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
  • December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Bernard Thompson, English director and producer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)