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| 1940 May 14 |
| | | The caretaker government of the Netherlands surrenders to the German invaders | |
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| 1942 |
| | | A Jewish girl in Amsterdam, Anne Frank, is given a diary for her thirteenth birthday | |
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| 1942 July |
| | | Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in an Amsterdam attic | |
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| 1944 August 4 |
| | | The hiding place in Amsterdam of Anne Frank and her family is discovered by the Gestapo | |
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| 1944 September 25 |
| | | 7500 British troops, trapped on the far side of the Rhine at Arnhem, are captured by the Germans | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam – a significant step in the ecumenical movement | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC) | |
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| 1959 |
| | | A group of dancers leave the Netherlands Ballet and establish their own Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1965 |
| | | 18-year-old Dutch footballer Johann Cruyff joins Ajax, the club with which he will be associated in numerous successes | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole | |
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