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Day of marriage May 27, 1949

• The temperature on May 27, 1949 was between 6.7 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • February 17 » Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
  • March 2 » Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
  • April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
  • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
  • September 17 » The Canadian steamship SSNoronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.

Day of death May 31, 1979

• The temperature on May 31, 1979 was between 13.9 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
  • March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
  • July 25 » In accord with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
  • October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • October 17 » The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
  • December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1976 » Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1977 » William Castle, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1978 » József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 1981 » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist and journalist (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)
• 1983 » Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (b. 1895)