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Day of marriage May 18, 1940

• The temperature on May 18, 1940 was between 8.5 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (63%). 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.
  • April 25 » Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.
  • May 15 » Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
  • May 26 » World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
  • May 28 » World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
  • June 11 » World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
  • August 6 » Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

Day of death June 5, 1989

• The temperature on June 5, 1989 was between 3.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1989: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
  • February 6 » The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
  • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
  • July 6 » The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
  • September 14 » The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year old pressman, killed 8 people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
  • November 20 » Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
  • December 6 » The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1993 » Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933)
• 1997 » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Sam Yorty, American soldier and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)