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Day of marriage September 25, 1940

• The temperature on September 25, 1940 was between 4.3 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
  • May 5 » World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
  • June 14 » The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
  • July 23 » The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • August 18 » World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain. At that point, the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
  • December 14 » Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Day of death February 21, 1996

• The temperature on February 21, 1996 was between -6.5 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (92%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1996: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
  • February 24 » Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
  • April 18 » In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
  • July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
  • August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
  • November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)