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Day of marriage June 12, 1940

• The temperature on June 12, 1940 was between 11.7 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 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.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • June 23 » Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
  • August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
  • October 14 » World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
  • November 16 » The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
  • December 29 » World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.

Day of death July 28, 1990

• The temperature on July 28, 1990 was between 16.9 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1990: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
  • May 4 » Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
  • June 1 » Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
  • June 13 » First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
  • August 23 » Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
  • September 12 » The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
  • September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Jill Esmond, English actress (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Sulev Nõmmik, Estonian actor and director (b. 1931)
• 1993 » Stanley Woods, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1903)
• 1996 » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)