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Day of marriage June 18, 1940

• The temperature on June 18, 1940 was between 12.6 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • May 15 » Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
  • June 15 » World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
  • 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 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.
  • November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.

Day of death June 21, 1991

• The temperature on June 21, 1991 was between 5.9 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • January 12 » Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
  • February 7 » Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
  • June 27 » Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
  • September 17 » Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
  • November 18 » After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
  • November 26 » National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1990 » Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (b. 1904)
• 1990 » June Christy, American singer (b. 1925)
• 1992 » Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor (b. 1922)
• 1992 » Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (b. 1971)
• 1992 » Li Xiannian, Chinese captain and politician, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (b. 1956)