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Day of marriage May 17, 1940

• The temperature on May 17, 1940 was between 2.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 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 10 » World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
  • June 3 » Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
  • June 28 » Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
  • July 11 » World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
  • October 7 » World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

Day of death June 5, 2009

• The temperature on June 5, 2009 was between 5.0 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 2009: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
  • February 10 » The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
  • June 22 » A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
  • July 4 » The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
  • October 9 » First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
  • October 28 » NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
  • December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

Source: Wikipedia

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