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Day of marriage May 27, 1953

• The temperature on May 27, 1953 was between 9.5 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1953: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
  • June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
  • June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
  • June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
  • December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

Day of death April 9, 2013

• The temperature on April 9, 2013 was between 2.2 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • February 11 » The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
  • March 29 » At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  • April 15 » Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
  • April 24 » A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
  • June 7 » A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
  • October 11 » A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning.

Day of cremation April 16, 2013

• The temperature on April 16, 2013 was between 5.0 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 29 » SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
  • March 13 » The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
  • June 3 » The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
  • July 13 » Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160million in East China and Taiwan.
  • November 17 » Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
  • December 16 » A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Malcolm Thomas, Welsh rugby player and cricketer (b. 1929)
• 2013 » David Hayes, American sculptor and painter (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Greg McCrary, American football player (b. 1952)
• 2013 » McCandlish Phillips, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Mordechai Mishani, Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
• 2013 » Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (b. 1919)