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Day of marriage September 7, 1940

• The temperature on September 7, 1940 was between 7.2 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 16 » World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMSCossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
  • April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
  • 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 23 » Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
  • November 27 » In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.

Day of death June 17, 1997

• The temperature on June 17, 1997 was between 7.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
  • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
  • June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
  • July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
  • August 20 » Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
  • September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1996 » Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)