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Birthday September 6, 1940

• The temperature on September 6, 1940 was between 7.5 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 9 » Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
  • May 5 » World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London.
  • May 26 » World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
  • July 20 » California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
  • September 29 » Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
  • November 23 » World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1939 » Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer
• 1939 » David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 » Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator († 2007)
• 1940 » Jackie Trent, English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress († 2015)
• 1940 » John M. Hayes, American scientist