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Birthday March 16, 1940

• The temperature on March 16, 1940 was between -0.2 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • May 5 » World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
  • May 7 » World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
  • June 12 » World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
  • August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
  • October 16 » Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
  • November 5 » World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMSJervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1940 » Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter († 2018)
• 1940 » Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
• 1940 » Keith Rowe, English guitarist
• 1940 » Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani pianist and composer († 1979)
• 1941 » Robert Guéï, Ivorian soldier and politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire († 2002)