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Day of marriage March 14, 1940

• The temperature on March 14, 1940 was between -1.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 26.8 mm of rain during 13.7 hours. 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.
  • February 28 » Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
  • March 16 » First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
  • August 20 » In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
  • October 25 » Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
  • November 5 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
  • November 12 » World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.

Day of death February 27, 1999

• The temperature on February 27, 1999 was between 4.7 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.1 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1999: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
  • April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
  • May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
  • August 17 » The 7.6 M_w  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
  • September 14 » Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
  • November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
  • December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1998 » George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 » J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Spike Milligan, Irish soldier, actor, comedian, and author (b. 1918)
• 2003 » Fred Rogers, American minister and television host (b. 1928)
• 2003 » John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)