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Day of marriage May 25, 1940

• The temperature on May 25, 1940 was between 8.7 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • March 30 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
  • May 10 » World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
  • June 4 » World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
  • 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.
  • July 27 » The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
  • November 11 » World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

Day of death January 17, 2008

• The temperature on January 17, 2008 was between 0.8 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
  • February 17 » Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
  • March 14 » A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
  • May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
  • June 11 » The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
  • August 6 » A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
  • September 11 » A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2006 » Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Art Buchwald, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1951)
• 2008 » Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)
• 2008 » Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1948)
• 2009 » Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (b. 1943)