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Day of marriage November 2, 1940

• The temperature on November 2, 1940 was between 6.6 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • June 7 » King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
  • June 10 » World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
  • July 19 » World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
  • August 5 » World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
  • October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
  • December 14 » Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Day of death December 29, 2001

• The temperature on December 29, 2001 was between -1.7 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
  • June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
  • August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
  • October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
  • November 13 » War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Adele Stimmel Chase, American sculptor and painter (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
• 2003 » Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)