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Day of marriage August 31, 1940

• The temperature on August 31, 1940 was between 6.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (42%). 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.
  • March 12 » Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
  • March 23 » The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
  • July 5 » World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
  • November 5 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.

Day of death June 21, 1978

• The temperature on June 21, 1978 was between 7.5 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
  • January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
  • February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
  • May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
  • June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
  • September 16 » The 7.4 M_w  Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1970 » Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Margaret Herrick, American librarian (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Don Figlozzi, American illustrator and animator (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Hector Boyardee, Italian-American chef and businessman, founded Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)