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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.
  • March 5 » Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
  • May 17 » World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
  • June 5 » World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
  • June 21 » World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
  • September 14 » Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
  • November 7 » In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

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.
  • March 11 » Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
  • April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
  • May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
  • July 16 » John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
  • July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
  • November 19 » Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

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)