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Day of marriage February 19, 1954

• The temperature on February 19, 1954 was between -0.3 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 13.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
  • April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
  • November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
  • December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

Day of death March 31, 2015

• The temperature on March 31, 2015 was between 5.8 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called 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 2015: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • May 23 » At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
  • July 27 » At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
  • October 3 » Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
  • November 5 » An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
  • November 5 » Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
  • December 9 » The start of the thirty-sixth GCC summit in Riyadh business.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2014 » Gonzalo Anes, Spanish economist, historian, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Roger Somville, Belgian painter (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
• 2015 » Cocoa Fujiwara, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1983)
• 2015 » Dalibor Vesely, Czech-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1934)