The temperature on June 27, 1940 was between 7.7 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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 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.
May 24 » Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
May 26 » World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
June 8 » World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
June 23 » Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
June 25 » World War II: The French armistice with Germany comes into effect.
July 25 » General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
Day of death April 30, 1997
The temperature on April 30, 1997 was between 4.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
September 11 » After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
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