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Day of marriage September 21, 1939

• The temperature on September 21, 1939 was between 10.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
  • September 1 » General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
  • September 1 » World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
  • September 18 » World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.
  • October 15 » The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
  • October 16 » World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
  • November 30 » Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.

Day of death January 8, 2002

• The temperature on January 8, 2002 was between -3.0 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2002: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
  • May 1 » OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
  • May 10 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4million in cash and diamonds.
  • May 24 » Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
  • August 20 » A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
  • November 6 » Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
  • December 23 » A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2004 » John A. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1930)
• 2006 » Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (b. 1943)