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Day of marriage May 4, 1949

• The temperature on May 4, 1949 was between 8.9 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
  • April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
  • August 22 » The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
  • August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • November 2 » The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.

Day of death February 26, 2001

• The temperature on February 26, 2001 was between -0.4 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
  • February 18 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
  • September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
  • December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
  • December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
• 2004 » Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)