Family tree Diverse » Martinus Joannes Cornelis "Tinus" van Kemenade (1912-2000)

Day of marriage January 4, 1940

• The temperature on January 4, 1940 was between -10.0 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 7 » King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
  • June 11 » World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
  • June 14 » Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • September 6 » King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
  • September 18 » World War II: The British liner SSCity of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
  • November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

Day of death July 18, 2000

• The temperature on July 18, 2000 was between 12.5 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2000: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
  • February 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
  • June 5 » The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
  • September 15 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
  • September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
  • November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
  • December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 2002 » Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)
• 2004 » André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976)
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