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Day of marriage October 2, 1940

• The temperature on October 2, 1940 was between 3.8 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 16 » World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMSCossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
  • March 3 » Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.
  • June 18 » The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
  • July 20 » Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
  • September 7 » Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova.
  • October 15 » President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.

Day of death May 27, 1989

• The temperature on May 27, 1989 was between 9.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • March 19 » The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in 1979.
  • June 4 » Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
  • August 18 » Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
  • November 13 » Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
  • December 13 » The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded.
  • December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1987 » John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1988 » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908)
• 1989 » Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904)