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Day of marriage August 6, 1942

• The temperature on August 6, 1942 was between 10.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • March 12 » The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
  • April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
  • July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
  • August 19 » World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
  • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
  • October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.

Day of death March 18, 1981

• The temperature on March 18, 1981 was between -1.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1981: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
  • February 13 » A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • July 19 » In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
  • July 29 » A worldwide television audience of over 700million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
  • August 12 » The IBM Personal Computer is released.
  • October 14 » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
  • December 4 » South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1978 » Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1978 » Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)