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Day of marriage May 31, 1930

• The temperature on May 31, 1930 was between 9.7 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
  • January 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
  • February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
  • February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
  • May 7 » The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
  • May 27 » The 1,046 feet (319m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
  • August 29 » The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

Day of death July 4, 1940

• The temperature on July 4, 1940 was between 10.9 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 17 » The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
  • June 17 » World War II: RMSLancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
  • July 5 » World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
  • July 25 » General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
  • September 29 » Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1938 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)