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Day of marriage September 10, 1940

• The temperature on September 10, 1940 was between 2.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • 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 4 » World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
  • July 11 » World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
  • August 8 » The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
  • 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".
  • November 22 » World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

Day of death April 27, 1999

• The temperature on April 27, 1999 was between 9.3 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
  • April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
  • May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
  • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
  • December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
  • December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
• 1998 » John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)