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Day of marriage April 18, 1940

• The temperature on April 18, 1940 was between 2.6 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). 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, 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 27 » Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
  • May 15 » USSSailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
  • June 5 » World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
  • June 10 » World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
  • August 5 » World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
  • September 9 » George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.

Day of death September 17, 2000

• The temperature on September 17, 2000 was between 8.8 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • April 19 » Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
  • April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • September 26 » Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
  • 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.
  • November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
  • December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Ted Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Frankie Vaughan, English singer and actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)
• 2003 » Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)