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Day of marriage February 26, 1949

• The temperature on February 26, 1949 was between 4.1 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 10 » Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
  • June 14 » Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134km (83mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
  • July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
  • November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
  • December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

Day of death August 14, 1998

• The temperature on August 14, 1998 was between 13.6 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 1998: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
  • March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • April 10 » The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
  • August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
  • October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
  • October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1994 » Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)