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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.
  • January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
  • April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
  • May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
  • August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.

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.
  • February 18 » Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
  • April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
  • June 3 » The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
  • October 12 » Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
  • December 5 » Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.

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.
  • February 10 » Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
  • May 30 » Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
  • May 31 » The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
  • June 5 » A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.
  • June 23 » Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
  • August 21 » Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.

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)