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Day of marriage August 26, 1942

• The temperature on August 26, 1942 was between 13.8 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
  • January 2 » World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.
  • May 3 » World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
  • June 28 » World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
  • July 10 » World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
  • July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
  • December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

Day of death September 6, 1961

• The temperature on September 6, 1961 was between 11.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
  • January 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
  • May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
  • June 19 » Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
  • July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
  • August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1956 » Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1904)
• 1959 » Edmund Gwenn, English actor (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (b. 1927)
• 1962 » Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)