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Day of marriage May 29, 1948

• The temperature on May 29, 1948 was between 2.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 1948: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
  • January 21 » The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Québec Flag Day.
  • April 3 » In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
  • May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
  • June 9 » Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
  • June 17 » United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
  • August 3 » Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

Day of death March 31, 2001

• The temperature on March 31, 2001 was between 2.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily 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.
  • April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
  • June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
  • September 3 » In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, some of whom hurl missiles and abuse. The protest sparks fierce rioting and grabs world headlines.
  • September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
  • December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
  • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1999 » Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Clifford Shull, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 2001 » David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)
• 2002 » Barry Took, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Moturu Udayam, Indian activist and politician (b. 1924)
• 2003 » Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1907)