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Day of marriage March 2, 1940

• The temperature on March 2, 1940 was between -4.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • June 25 » World War II: The French armistice with Germany comes into effect.
  • July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
  • July 10 » World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
  • August 19 » First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
  • September 7 » Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova.
  • November 5 » World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMSJervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.

Day of death July 28, 1961

• The temperature on July 28, 1961 was between 11.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
  • May 30 » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • May 31 » The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outside the Commonwealth of Nations until 1 June 1994, when South Africa is returned to Commonwealth membership.
  • September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
  • November 21 » The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1957 » Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
• 1965 » Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
• 1965 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
• 1967 » Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)