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Birthday September 10, 1940

• The temperature on September 10, 1940 was between 3.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (45%). 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.
  • May 17 » World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
  • June 10 » World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
  • June 10 » World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
  • July 11 » World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
  • July 19 » World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
  • October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1940 » Buck Buchanan, American football player († 1992)
• 1940 » Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer
• 1941 » Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music († 2014)
• 1941 » Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy († 1997)
• 1941 » Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author († 2002)