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Day of marriage October 17, 1940

• The temperature on October 17, 1940 was between 10.1 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 10 » Cartoon characters Tom and Jerry make their debut with Puss Gets the Boot.
  • February 10 » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
  • May 15 » USSSailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
  • June 15 » World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
  • August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
  • September 15 » World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.

Day of death October 12, 2000

• The temperature on October 12, 2000 was between 8.8 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
  • July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
  • September 26 » Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
  • September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
  • October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
  • October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.

Source: Wikipedia

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